Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finally, after eight weeks of stalling, the Congress shoved through a bill authorizing a $100,000,000 increase in the depleted capital of the Export-Import Bank-on the clear understanding that Federal Lender Jesse Jones would immediately "lend" Finland...
...Banking & Currency committee, 18-5, at last came the bill doubling the Export-Import Bank's $100,000,000 capital-$20,000,000 of it to go to Finland, if there still is a Finland when the bill is signed...
Since then Russian trade with Britain and France has virtually collapsed, and Germany has lost half of all her import & export trade because of the blockade. As a result a German trade mission headed by Dr. Karl Ritter, former Nazi Ambassador to Brazil and largely responsible for the huge pre-war Brazilian-German barter trade, has been in Moscow to make bigger,better arrangements. Last week, as the mission started for home, it was announced that another Nazi-Bolshevik trade treaty had been signed which, Nazi officials boasted, would give Germany all the imports she needs to defeat the purposes...
Since 1935 Du Pont has been on the radio every season with a program called Cavalcade of America, not specifically to sell Duco or Cellophane, but to herald Du Font's part in supplying the U. S. with materials it once had to import, or perhaps had never imagined. This increasing state of self-sufficiency is hailed as "America's Declaration of Economic Independence...
...markets lost to competitive fuels. As for the bootleggers, the Governor hopes they will ultimately be absorbed by stabilized legitimate producers. This pious hope gains strength from the cooperative policy of neighboring States (New York. New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware), which have already narrowed the 'leggers' markets by import (stolen goods) restrictions...