Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existing U.S. Export-Import Bank could have its lending power raised from $700 million to $2 billion to supplement the lending activities of the proposed Bank for Reconstruction...
...civilian demand is nowhere satisfied. Not only were the railroads hit by bombing, but shipping space is being used almost entirely by the armed forces. There is enough food in France, but the lack of trains cannot distribute it adequately; there is not enough clothing, and the shipping cannot import...
...Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room, found that the bird-quarantine laws (effective in 1930) were not retroactive, told her to bring the bird across...
...music by David Diamond and eloquent lighting by Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...
...This news is probably the biggest out of China in many years. It has import of the greatest consequence. . . . An historic choice of a future road has been made. China has turned in the right direction...