Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more private capital and know-how to flow overseas would help the free world compete with Communism by capitalizing on capitalism itself. If the U.S. and foreign nations worked together to make investment abroad inviting, there was little doubt that free enterprising Americans would do the rest. The Export-Import Bank has already announced plans to expand its loans to companies doing business abroad, and the U.N. will set up a new International Finance Corp. to make venture-capital loans for foreign investment...
Some of Perón's countrymen see a method in the President's motorcycle madness. His enthusiasm boosts demand for motorcycles (which the government manufactures) and eases the hunger for U.S. automobiles (which the government keeps out with import fences in order to save scarce dollars). But whatever such practical motives Perón may have, the main reason for his addiction to motorcycling appears to be simply that he gets a huge kick out of the sport...
...opposed the reappointment of one board member last fall. By a vote of 5 to 1, the board passed a resolution forbidding any teacher to work for or against any candidate for any local office. Protested a C.T.A. official: "This is a basic issue with far more than local import. Now it's local candidates The next thing we know it could be extended to a campaign for the governorship. The next logical step would involve a presidential campaign." ¶ The Fund for the Advancement of Education added its own gloomy estimate of the teacher shortage: "The annual output...
FREER TRADE POLICY has been upheld again by President Eisenhower. Overriding recommendations of the Tariff Commission, the President rejected any boost in import duties of screen-printed silk scarves mostly from Japan, has also turned down, a request for import quotas on wood screws from Western Europe. The presidential box score, thus far: eleven nays, eight yeas on requests for higher import barriers...
MISSISSIPPI'S ROBERT C. MILXER, 37, who borrowed $3,000 to open a Shell Oil distributorship when he was 21, now owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...