Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finance the $345 million city he authorized Novacap to speculate in Brasilia's residential land. He begged U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs for a Brasilia loan as a "personal favor," got $10 million from the Export-Import Bank...
Each day brought reports of new seizures of Dutch properties. Thirty Dutch-owned steamships were seized in Indonesian waters. Dutch property transfers were placed under stringent control. In Djakarta the Nederlandse Cultuurbank and the last of the "Big Five" Dutch export-import firms were taken over by Indonesian management. The central government ordered some 500 Dutch agricultural estates throughout the islands (sisal, palm oil, spices) placed under the supervision of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture...
Whatever serious music the U.S. small city or town is unable to drum up on its own these days, it can usually import through any one of the 20 management concerns operating in Manhattan (Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corp. and Sol Hurok among them control 90% of the business). The New York management outfits now give their clients a choice of 617 attractions, including 96 sopranos, 42 tenors, 101 pianists, 50 violinists, 65 instrumental ensembles, 47 vocal ensembles, four harpists, one marimbist and an assortment of special acts. Many younger artists use the local concert circuit to pick...
...government poured on cold water. Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari and others refused to see him. But last week Graham's dream of financing capital-starved entrepreneurs ("The small guy who's on the ball") and making a profit to boot had become too important to ignore. When Graham landed in India with funds raised from free-enterprising Americans, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru himself sat down with the tireless enterpriser for a half-hour's talk and wished him all success. Krishnamachari not only approved, but last week eased import restrictions on needed machinery for Graham projects...
...always do encourage people from the Houses," said Michael J. Stone '58, president of the Lowell House Music Society, "but couldn't get performers from one House alone, not even unsuccessful ones." Lowell House has had to import singers for its Opera and Winthrop usually has to find technicians...