Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...port showed a surprising rate of growth. Between 1945 and 1959, the average volume of import-export cargo almost tripled. Construction and improvements involved huge expenditures, however, so the Massachusetts legislature terminated the Port of Boston as a government agency and in 1956 created the combined Massachusetts Port Authority. The Authority, which presently operates and controls Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field, Port of Boston properties, and the Mystic River Bridge (whose revenues are bigger than those of the port properties), is a curious mixture of business and government designed for the purpose of making the port a commercial concern, rather...
...confidence, perhaps, is justified. For if the New Boston has learned anything, it is not to rely on the past which has left it so out of touch with the present. It has accepted automation, for instance. (Boston's four largest import commodities, petroleum products, sugar, gypsum, and salt are now completely handled by automated machinery. The New Boston, in addition, has begun to learn from other cities. Old South Station and the New Haven yards are to be torn down to make way for a Trade and Transportation Center which features accommodations and showrooms for visiting businessmen, very similar...
Poisoned Springs. "What the hell is the matter with the newspaper editors of this state?" he asked in an editorial. "The very guardians of our intellectual outposts, the very men who should be sounding the warning against radicalism, import this poison to our springs and beg us to sit and sup with them. Birchites and Communists are probably bent upon the same goals, the main one of which is the destruction of confidence in our Government. I, too, consider myself a conservative. I stand for the old-fashioned principles of this country and will fight for them, but that doesn...
...nation, and the country's new leader is no exception. In fact, Ferdinand Marcos' main campaign plank was a promise to weed out crooked officials and halt the illicit traffic in whisky, cigarettes and luxury goods that cheats the national treasury of an annual $125 million in import duties. It is a huge task, but Marcos has got off to an impressively early start...
...policies and the power to fix the world price of residual fuel oil, of which Venezuela is the prime supplier. By pressuring the subsidiaries of such U.S. giants as Jersey Standard, Gulf, Socony Mobil, Texaco and Atlantic Refining, they also hope to persuade the U.S. Government to increase the import quotas for Venezuelan crude oil, which brings a higher price than fuel...