Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wily Goldwyn then executed a dazzling maneuver. He announced that the first night's receipts would be handed to the local Camp and Hospital Service Committee. Official Reno opposition vanished. Then Goldwyn had only to import a non-inflammable film (cost: $1,000) and build a false wooden floor in the dance hall so that 400 borrowed chairs could be nailed down to conform to building laws...
...supply of its own. This does not mean Canada will now supply fully the furnaces of its own young but lusty and growing steel industry. But it does mean that Canada will become, for the first time, an iron-ore exporter. And no longer will Canada have to import as much U.S. ore of grades comparable to Steep Rock...
...grade ore (it has a low silica and high iron content) is ideal for mixing with lower-grade U.S. ores. It would be impractical to use Steep Rock ore exclusively in steelmaking. Consequently Canada will ship much of Steep Rock's production to the U.S. and continue to import lower-grade U.S. ores...
...Ethiopian Minister to the U.S., His Excellency Blatta Ephrem Tewelde Medhen, thinks he can find the teachers. His idea is to import U.S. Negroes to replace the slaughtered teachers of Ethiopia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People favors the proposal, points out that many U.S. Negroes have gone to Liberia to teach...
...first wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro duction, once the No. 1 U.S. war problem, has been solved. U.S. plants now produce at a rate of 836,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year (more than 25% above the peak prewar import of crude). ORD has no job left; what remains are manpower problems and production troubles in tire manufacturing...