Word: important
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin and his friends dug up $20,000 for polo's sake and arrangements were made to import the Old Aiken team, composed of four Long Island youths, and the Santa Paula team from Argentina which played in California last year. Last week the great moment came: Onwentsia was for a moment polo capital of the land...
Nearly all U.S. diplomats import U. S. cigarets, get them tax free and duty free, pay less for standard 15� brands in Berlin or Bangkok than in the U. S. where each package is taxed...
...rich men have promised to open a wire netting plant in Hamilton, Ont. if protected by a high duty; second that another group have promised Premier Bennett to build a factory at Windsor, Ont., and make things in it out of steel and iron tubing, if allowed to import these at reduced duty...
Defense? Dr. Klein defended the Hawley-Smoot Tariff with figures more specific than theoretical. Said he: "In 19 representative countries all over the world, comprising most of our leading customers . . . our share in their import totals last year was almost exactly 20%. . . . During 1924-27 [the U. S. share] averaged 20.7%. . . . Preliminary figures for 1931 show almost exactly the same trend." As to imports, his figures proved that for the first quarter of this year, "whereas the incoming European wares subject to duty fell 33%, . . . those coming in free of duties declined...
Like Death's beckoning fingers, two skis upright in a Greenland snow hummock last week signaled to searching Germans through the colored dawn of the returning midnight sun. Any unexplained man-made thing has awful import in the ice desert. The Germans clambered over the ridged ice to the skis, chopped them loose, chopped deeper into the frozen snow until they found the body of lost Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener. The body was carefully sewn within two blankets and covered with fur coats. The last chapter of Professor Wegener's career was clear...