Word: importances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion included the $3,750,000,000 already spoken for by the British, which Congress may or may not approve and which is "a special case," not to be considered "a precedent for a loan to any other country." Other countries will apply to the Export-Import Bank, which, if Congress accepts Vinson's program, will have some $3 billion to dish...
...commercially feasible process of making synthetic mica. (The U.S. must import its supply of natural mica...
Until as late as 1908 the U.S. was regarded by Rome as a missionary province-it had to import priests to care for the faithful, money to support their activities. The Vatican had permitted the U.S. clergy to choose the first three of their bishops, beginning with John Carroll of Baltimore in 1789, had then taken alarm. For the next century, U.S. bishops were chosen by Rome's Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and those selected were most often either Irish or French in background...
Wait & Speculate. While the U.S. public waited for the final truth about the Yalta conference, it could speculate on the import of the Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed...
Smart, balding, 45-year-old Cinema-director Siodmak is rapidly becoming Hollywood's top horror man. He looks, talks and acts like a European import, but was actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan...