Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aspect of the Red Army's occupation held great import for China's economic future. What, if anything, had the Russians done to the tremendous industrial plant developed by the Japanese in Manchuria...
...page report to the Allied Control Council, owlish Professor Calvin Hoover argued: 1) a minimum German living standard equal to the European average was required (not merely allowed) by the Potsdam terms; 2) in order to maintain this standard, Germany must import food and raw materials, export industrial products; 3) Germany's industrial exports must be in the same categories (steel, chemicals) as her prewar exports. On these premises, Hoover's report first proposed an annual German steel production of 6.8 million tons, later raised this to 10 million. The British are willing to see Germany produce...
...long run, Filipino businessmen knew that reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...
This blueprint was yet to be worked out and approved in detail. But the starting principles had been agreed on: the four zones would exchange goods and services; Germany would be allowed a limited, rigidly controlled import-and-export trade...
Quite casually, Canada's big, able Trade Minister James Angus MacKinnon rose in the House of Commons to make an announcement of import to the whole world. The Government had decided, he said, to hold down the Canadian export price of wheat to $1.55 a bushel...