Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this eve of an event of import for centuries, we turn our thoughts to His Majesty, the King and Emperor, who al ways has understood the thought of the country...
...Otherwise the Nazis looked to be in for it. Seventeen per cent short of food self-sufficiency, the Reich has brigaded its appetite, lived off stored-up peacetime surpluses. It lacks men enough to till its own fields, has had to summon 30,000 agricultural laborers from Italy and import thousands of Polish slaves. Nor can Denmark and Norway be expected to make up Germany's food deficit. Norwegian peasants scrape so little from their rocky slopes that Norway is accustomed to import more than half its food supply. Even Denmark, where agriculture is an industry, relies on overseas...
Wanger was making an ambitious movie called The Long Voyage Home, based on Eugene O'Neill's four one-act sea plays. The scheme: that Wanger import nine of Lewenthal's painters (he is head of Associated American Artists) to do scenes and characters from the movie, painted from life. The deal called for: 1) a free hand to the painters, 2) studios on the movie lot, 3) a total fee of $50,000-plus and expenses. In August the pictures will be shown at Manhattan's Associated American Artists' gallery (where Wanger and cast...
Mussolini had long been a leading beneficiary of the well-known schizophrenia afflicting U. S. foreign-trade policy; while trying to throttle exports to totalitarian States, Washington has simultaneously tried to stimulate crop exports too. To serve the latter purpose, the U. S. Export-Import Bank gave Italy a credit of $1,567,022 last June, which enabled her to double her cotton purchases here in the first six months of war. It also freed enough Italian cash to buy other things. From last September through February, U. S. shipments to Italy totaled $43,686,000, 54% more than...
Bones. Four days after his wedding in 1917, Yeats's wife surprised him by trying her hand at automatic writing. What she put down seemed of such profound import that Yeats pressed her to continue the experiment. For over two years thereafter he was busy filling notebooks with what certain self-styled "instructors," writing or speaking through his wife's mediumship, had to tell him. When he finally pieced his notes together into A Vision,* Yeats felt satisfied that he had got hold of something that, grasped fully, would "explain the world...