Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whenever he could get them at bottom prices, and used them to tap new sources of traffic for the G.M. & N. In 1933 he leased the New Orleans Great Northern Railway Co., which soon gave him a line into New Orleans and a chance to bid for export-Si -import freight traffic. In 1940 Tigrett bought the Mobile & Ohio Railroad...
...delegates missed the import of the city's past, they would hardly miss the significance of San Francisco in 1945-metropolis, arsenal, base of vast Pacific air and sea communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
Minister Mendès-France skipped lightly over certain qualifying facts: Marseilles' tonnage is mostly for Allied military use; for almost two years before the 1946 harvest is in, the nation will have to import its bread. But France, tired of endless greys, welcomed the first rosy hues...
South Africa. Always a food importer, South Africa, because of drought at home, will need to import more than usual-just how much is not yet known-and ships to carry the food will have to be found...
...Strengthening and "broadening" of reciprocal trade agreements. ¶Reduction of trade barriers. ¶Control of cartels. ¶ Boosting the capitalization of the Export-Import Bank, which handles loans of U.S. money. ¶An international oil agreement. ¶International agreements on civil aviation, shipping and communication...