Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished. After months of unemployment, a minimum of 30? an hour-the prevailing rate-in the Florida vegetable fields looked mighty good to Bahamians. Florida planters, worrying about getting beans, tomatoes and sugar cane harvested, were equally delighted. Ever since last fall they had clamored for permission to import foreign labor. The War Manpower Commission turned them down, fearing a flood of cheap labor, finally okayed the plan. In the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor did all he could to help...
...They import from Spain tons of books and magazines. Propaganda is aided by several large Spanish publishing houses, by nearly a score of Fascist-controlled radio stations which regularly transmit Hispanidad propaganda under titles like "La Vos de Espana," "Espana de Hoy." Spanish films bring Hispanidad to the attention of the moviegoing masses; an increasing number of Spanish dancers, singers, artists stream to Buenos Aires to remind Argentines of the strong ties of Hispano-American culture...
...enough sugar to give housewives an extra supply; consumers must give up a lot of ration coupons to get canning sugar. The slide-rulers stubbornly insisted nothing else would work. But Prentiss Brown went to the Agriculture Department and the War Shipping Administration, worked out an arrangement to import 200,000 tons of Cuba sugar for home canners, who will get it without surrendering ration coupons...
...bank would be expected to call for some readjustment. One readjustment might be an attempt to revalue such a country's currency in terms of gold and the bancor unit. A revision downward would make it easier for the debtor country to export, more difficult for it to import...
...Other lines of action would be: 1) to try to persuade nations tending to run trade deficits to reduce prices and costs, thus stimulating their exports; 2) to try to persuade nations running big export surpluses to raise prices by internal fiscal policy and thus to export less and import more; 3) to persuade nations to abandon restrictive tariffs and other trade barriers...