Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supported by an affable group of youngsters, Woolley tramps through Holland and Relgium behind the rush of the German armies, and manages to pick up, in addition to a junior League of Nations, a growing awareness of the import of the struggle in which his country is engaged. Roddy MacDowall-the young Hugh Morgan in "How Green Was My Valley"--is Woolley's chief companion on his strange pilgrimage, but Anne Baxter and a number of others are equally effective in lesser roles. There are Nazis barging in and out of the scenes, too, and Shute has wisely refrained from...
Work on the bases has already begun. Building an airfield on the rough terrain would be a major engineering job, but there are sheltered coves for seaplanes, good anchorages for ships. The workers and sailors will have to import water; on Albermarle, which has almost no fresh water, the ranchers and cattle hands drink coconut juices, wash in salt water...
Painter Duchamp, who once entered a shovel in an exhibition with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...
...Item 4 of the Atlantic Charter, try to assure to all states the "access on equal terms to the trade and to the raw materials of the world," they may have to bear in mind that the U.S. in the not too distant future may no longer export but import...
...More important than the trade pact was a $12,000,000 Export-Import Bank credit for construction of a sorely needed hydroelectric plant at Rio Negro dam, not far from industrially growing Montevideo...