Word: importances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training would meet a sorely felt need in the field of adult education. Until they undertake this service, efforts of the hit-or-miss variety coupled with intensive advertising and sales campaigns must continue to brand most of these schools as merely profit-making institutions. And of more serious import, they are contributing to the formation of an unhappy and maladjusted citizenry...
Greatly dismayed was U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers who hastened to Foreign Minister Leandro Pita Romero to deplore the unhappy effect of the new verdict on U. S. public opinion just at the time when Spain wants an increase in its U. S. import quota for Spanish wines...
...significance of the Minnesota decision--and it is probably the forerunner of many of similar import--is that in an emergency much will be-tolerated but that the moment efforts are made to impose on the country a permanent system, the Supreme Court will probably point to the amending power of the constitution itself as the best remedy available to the people or their leaders who may feel that a new social or economic order shall be set up in America...
...international trade game, how many bushels of apples and pears equal how many gallons of wine? All last week the U. S. haggled that point with France. The original import quota of French wines had been 784,000 gal. Most of that had been bought up in the Christmas rush. If any more French wines were to be admitted, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration politely informed the French Embassy in Washington, France would have to buy a great deal more U. S. apples and pears...
Reason for the tobacco growers' plight is loss of foreign markets. Of a normal one and one-half billion pound crop less than half is consumed in the U. S. During Depression England and other overseas buyers have clamped on import duties, cut U. S. consumption. With U. S. stocks on hand already amounting to two billion pounds, prices for this year's crop depend on next year's crop restriction...