Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Delay. For their part, the officials of Ramapo township feel that their patience has been severely tried by a wily band which, if it has its way, will import droves of bearded and babushkaed fanatics from Brooklyn and crowd them into jerry-built cottages. The current standoff: New Square has applied for incorporation as a village, which would give it control over its own zoning and building, but the township refuses to process the application and is suing the Hasidim for the deed to their streets and sewage system, which they are required by law to surrender (New Square refuses...
Wonderland by Night (Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra; Dacca). An import from Germany that rocks on its mistily melodic way like an old-fashioned excursion steamer. The orchestra is expert, the vintage Prom Trotter...
Harold Francis Under, 60, chairman of the Export-Import Bank. Wealthy Philanthropist Linder was a partner with Wall Street's blue-ribbon brokerage house of Carl M. Loeb, Rhodes & Co., then president of General American Investors...
...Export-Import Bank yardsticks for all Latin American loans, i.e., that they must be bankable, and more loans and grants for social purposes...
...came in the industries above the minimum. Reason: low-wage industries are often prodded by a minimum-wage boost to increase productivity, cannot raise prices without pricing themselves out of the market. As for foreign competition, the President noted that "more than four-fifths of the commodities" affected by import or export trends" are already being produced by industries where wages are above his proposed minimum...