Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine depressed last week by import-export figures could rest his eyes, if not his mind, by contemplating other more pleasing figures. As summer ended, bathing girls, changeless in a changing world, paraded Argentine beaches competing for titles. Amid the crash of falling empires, the porteño rotogravure magazine Aqui Está (Here It Is) climactically chose a Queen, photographically fanfared (see cut) Señorita Leda Zorda as "Miss Summer 1942." To a world at war, however, Grizodubova (see p. 27) seemed more nearly appropriate as 1942's type...
...Board of Economic Warfare) tries to damage the enemy's economics (by export-import policies), acts as an economics intelligence division for the Army & Navy. Head is Vice President Henry Agard Wallace; executive director, Milo Perkins...
...Indian Government has been highly protected AGAINST Great Britain, and that only about one-third of India's trade-import and export-is with that country...
...determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan's Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan smack on the tung-oil barrel head-nearly two years before the last installment on the loan...
...Census Bureau totted up U.S.Latin American trade for 1941, discovered an overall import balance of $106,072,000 in trade with Latin America. (Most dollar-glutted was Argentina, with $57,371,000 of excess exports. A close second was sugar-rich Cuba, with $55,301,000.) But eight Latin American countries were not able to balance their trade with the U.S. Worst off: Mexico, with an import balance...