Word: important
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athens hotels this week some of the British salesmen felt better when the $7,000,000 destroyer order went to Glasgow shipyards. But Premier Metaxas followed with another move at Britain's expense. To save Greece's dwindling gold reserves he imposed new import restrictions amounting to some $7,000,000 which will mostly operate in Germany's favor. Not indeed since Athenians mulcted Sam Insull had they done such a thorough job. Much credit for the German success went to Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, who has just made a flying Balkan...
...dispatches last week Sir Samuel's return to the National Government figured as of major import, most correspondents feeling that indirectly it sounded the knell of League Sanctions, some indulging in flat prophesy that, within some such period as two years, "Flying Sam" will have become successively first Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister...
Between election and consecration had occurred several slips whose full import was understood only by U. S. Syrians. Samuel David, 43, emigrated from Syria to Toledo 15 years ago. He smokes costly Turkish cigarets, drives a big Packard, and when the votes were counted in Manhattan after last autumn's stormy election, Samuel David was at hand. When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted. Archbishop Theodosios offered to compromise by elevating both Bashir and David, then withdrew that offer. Feeling he had been double-crossed, Samuel David marshaled Syrian...
American Sugar, despite the highest sugar prices in years, made $3,571,000 in 1935, a considerable slide from the $4,877,000 profit in 1934. Chairman Earl D. Babst loudly blamed the company's loss of business on Government quotas, declared that import allowances for refined sugar from Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines had made refineries hum on those islands while "domestic refineries are working at half capacity...
...dazzling flash the whole panorama shifts, and these characters assume their new roles in the gang. Immediately preparations build up for the denouement, an outcome that can be predicted in general import, but that leaves an exhilarating suspense as to details. A final charming touch occurs when the pretty bait, bared in her shame and led off by the police, swears that she never liked any guy as much as Calvin Miller...