Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germans in World War I. A princely spender even in the days when spending came easily to India's princes, Patiala's Maharajah was an enthusiastic cricketer and polo player as well, and his enthusiasm for the hunt was such that he was forced to import tigers by the dozen from neighboring states to eke out his own rapidly dwindling stock...
Deak figures that the best bargain in New York is in currencies of countries that have no import limits, although their official rates stand much higher than the free rate. Among these are France's franc (which was selling in the U.S. last week at 395 to the dollar, v. 350 in Paris), Bolivia's boliviano (5,5°° ". 190), Argentina's peso. Even where limits exist-as in Spain, Finland, Turkey-tourists can take in the legal amount and still make a saving. Where money is stable and the saving small, travelers still find...
...honored by the biggest names of Pittsburgh on Dave McDonald Day. At home he works for the local Community Chest, the Rosalia Foundling & Maternity Hospital, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Parents' Athletic Council of Mount Lebanon. He is a member of the Government's Export-Import Bank advisory committee, and was a member of the Randall Commission, which surveyed foreign economic policy...
ONCE printed, the magazines are sent to more than 700 distributing agencies over 400,000 miles of air routes and 200,000 miles of ocean, e.g., from the Tokyo printer to Auckland, N.Z. is an 8,200-mile airlift. Broken-field running through a maze of import controls, taxes and quotas, TLI often comes up against fluctuating money markets, which in the past year, for example, caused one nation's currency to drop from 300 to 780 to the dollar, and another's from...
TURBINE OIL DRILL, similar to one touted by Russians, will come to U.S. after all. After Dresser Industries failed to get Commerce Department permission to import high-speed Russian turbodrill in exchange for U.S. technical information (TIME, May 28), Dresser signed agreement to manufacture and market almost identical French drill supposed to cut through rock ten times faster than rotary drills...