Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save College tourists from the inconveniences which confront the erring border-crosser, Downing released several warnings about import duties and currency exchanges...
...taken from a country, but the traveller is just allowed, to bring $400 worth of foreign purchased merchandise into the United States duty free, and then only if he has been out of the country at least 12 days. Anything over this amount will be taxed the regular import duties. Last year the government imposed a $100 maximum on foreign purchases...
Empire Abuilding. In the past three years, McCarthy has galloped off in all directions. He bought a radio station, a cluster of throwaway newspapers, a Detroit steel plant (to get pipe), export and import companies, a chemical firm...
...Hoover Commission also recommended that the Treasury get control of three credit agencies, now independent: the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Export-Import Bank. To coordinate the 30 other U.S. lending agencies, and to advise the President on money matters, it suggested the setting up of a National Monetary and Credit Council...
Clay Calhoun, as his name suggests,* looks like a solid Southern gentleman. A handsome 30-year-old with a fullback's build, he has a flourishing export-import business in New Orleans. He also has a millionaire father-in-law-hearty, red-faced William Stevens of Miami, a building contractor in Venezuela since the days of President Isaías Medina...