Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheming to bring the world to its doorstep. Chambers of Commerce talk less these days of tariffs than of air transport. The beginnings of debate over "freedom of the air," the realization that all the world's air is navigable, brought the Midwest a discovery of great local import: its inland cities are, geographically, the logical U.S. "ports" for the world's sky traffic. This month three great Midwestern cities were hard at work on plans for these world ports of the future...
...this came about quite naturally. The outbreak of war cut off Europe's wine supply, left the import divisions of most U.S. distillers with a crack sales and distributing setup but nothing to do. So the distillers began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking...
...remedies for labor shortages Elder Statesman Hoover called for the import of Mexicans, stopping the draft of farm workers, furloughs for farm-bred soldiers during harvests. Prices must be high enough to encourage production; vaguely, he added, retail ceilings should be abandoned in favor of fixed prices "as near the farm as possible...
...northern end of the front, where the Germans had held on stubbornly against subArctic weather that distressed even the acclimated Russians, the victory announced by Moscow could be of vital import. Near Schlüsselburg runs a railroad to Moscow and beyond. To the west, less than 30 miles, are more routes to the south. If these are retaken, the Russians will re-establish direct communications along their whole line...
Ever since 1875 when Emperor Franz Josef shook his royal britches to the tune of the Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...