Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many, the Vichy-Nazi collaboration portended events far outreaching Europe and Africa-of the gravest world import...
Through these tactics it became necessary to tack down wind in order to reach the leeward mark, and while the Tech skipper was figuring out problems of aerodynamic import on his calibrated sliderule, the great Miller with consummate ease jibed his craft three times, but on each occasion his machinations bailed and Tech ran off with the "championship...
Replacing natural materials which we now import with "ersatz" would require at least three years of great industrial effort, he said, and would mean great dislocation of our economy if it had to be carried out during a maximum war effort...
...financially able to use what it produced; if U. S. weapons, or U. S. food, could turn events in Europe or Asia, they could now legally be shipped. U. S. flags were broken out in the shattered streets of London. All over the world the news and its import were heard and realized...
...Buenos Aires was piled three times as much goods for shipments to the U. S. as there was cargo space available. The whole "Good Neighbor" program in Latin America was endangered by lack of ships to carry on the trade which the U. S. has subsidized through its Export-Import...