Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case anyone wished to see a foreign film there were four of them in town, including one British import, "Red Shoes." Peking Review describes this beautiful film as the "tragic story of a talented ballerina caught in the toils of the bourgeois commercial theater...
Agricultural scientists try hard to find ways to check insect pests by tricks of cultivation. They import the ancient enemies of invading foreign insects and foster the resident enemies of native pests. They are developing bacterial diseases to spread pestilence among insect populations. Because these tactics alone are seldom enough to protect the tender plants of modern, high-yield farms, the use of insecticides is economically necessary. Tests run by the Department of Agriculture show that failure to use pesticides would cost a major part of many crops; a 20-year study proved that cotton yields would...
...area's soot-stained limestone. And last week Architect Minoru Yamasaki was commissioned to design the $270 million World Trade Center, which will occupy a 15-acre site bounded by West, Barclay, Church and Liberty streets, and is planned to bring together all the city's export-import activities and information...
Though the red tape is often cumbersome and the sight-unseen aspect of the transaction frequently chancy, many agencies have been developed just to import domestics from abroad. The largest, Manhattan's Domestic Service. Inc., began importing some 1.200 domestics a year in 1950. but in the last few years has become more selective and cut back to about 700 a year. Though the agency could get all the European girls it wanted, it searched out more experienced domestics who would be more likely to stay beyond the usual one-year contract. The family pays the girl...
Endless Staple. Some families prefer to do their own prospecting in Europe and import a cook or a maid without a written contract. This can lead to some poignant frustrations when the importee discovers what a seller's market domestic service is in the U.S. Cook stealing has long been a popular sport (even the Kennedys have tried it), but it has reached fantastic heights. Anna, a cook who came from Germany to Beverly Hills-where cook stealing is as popular as wife stealing-started at $250 a month. Within three weeks she had switched to another household...