Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gags about old British movies on U.S. television would be no more than a beep compared to the clamor going on last week about U.S. shows on British TV. "Is BBC short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series." The tabloid Daily Mirror complained of "four American...
Dulles' outline left many a gap and blank to be filled in. One gap was soon pointed out by Export-Import Bank President Samuel C. Waugh. Would the fund's easy terms undermine the businesslike hard loans that both the Export-Import Bank and World Bank are trying to make the basis for sound international development? "Soft" loans, Waugh told the Senate committee, could "imperil the status of any loans made on a strictly banking basis." Also missing from the plan was any proposal for legislation to encourage private investment abroad...
...first overtime period only pushed the tie to 113-113. In the second overtime, the Celtics finally decided that if St. Louis was going to steal their strategy, they might as well try the one trick that had always worked for the Hawks. With their San Francisco import, big Bill Russell, grabbing every rebound in reach, the Celtics moved in front. There they stayed. For the first time in eleven years, the Boston Celtics won the world series of basketball, and they won St. Louis style...
Studebaker-Packard Corp. this week took over the exclusive U.S. distributorship of Germany's Mercedes-Benz cars, priced about $5,000 to $13,000. The deal puts the company back into the luxury-car market, gives it, and Curtiss-Wright, permission to import and manufacture Mercedes-Benz diesel engines and fuel-injection systems. With an eye on the sales surge of cheaper foreign cars, S-P also plans to produce a stripped-down version of its two-door "Champion" this year. Price: about...
ITALY'S FIRST SUPERMARKET is doing such a booming business that five new ones will be started in Rome this year. In June Romans will try another U.S. import-Italy's first drivein theater, with space for 560 cars, plus carhop snack service, automatic washing machines to do the laundry while family watches film...