Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan. At present their import needs are at least 1,500,000 hogs a year-one-sixth of Canada's total production...
Little-known but skilled players create with extraordinary vigor and depth the portraits painted by the author. "The Hasty Heart" is a play of exceptional emotional import, of brilliant and careful character portrayal...
...unaware of this financial embarrassment on the part of its closest ally and best customer. Before a Congressional subcommittee on foreign trade last week came Dean Acheson, the able Assistant Secretary of State. He strongly recommended that Congress substantially increase the lending power of the Export-Import Bank and at the same time repeal the Johnson Act which prohibits private loans to nations that have not repaid their World War I debts...
...Association also called for approval of the Bretton Woods International Bank, along with an "adequate" currency stabilization plan. To supplement the lending power of the International Bank, the Association would boost the capital of the Export-Import Bank and the RFC, and would open the U.S. door to private loans abroad by dropping the Johnson...
This foreign hoard has piled up for several reasons: while the U.S. has been Lend-Leasing goods and weapons to some nations, it has had to plunk out cash to import huge quantities of raw materials and stockpile supplies in foreign countries. Another drain on the U.S. is to the 6,000,000 U.S. servicemen abroad. Although the U.S. is now exporting $14 billion in goods a year, the Board pointed out that only some 50% of this is for cash. The rest is Lend-Lease. In fact, excluding Lend-Lease operations, the U.S. has had an "unfavorable" balance...