Word: important
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which limit the import of publications and motion pictures, the newsprint shortage, and restrictions of movement by news reporters and photographers. In spaces provided for "other" barriers, 15 of the ministers specified the diversity of languages and need for a universal language...
...Maxime himself did know. He was a lowly handyman, chauffeur and clerk for the firm of A. Freyman & Van Loo, Antwerp shippers. Long years of faithful service had brought him one occasional pleasure and privilege: going to the bank to draw some of the firm's money for import duties...
After six months, Desi's father was released from jail and rejoined his family in Miami, where he went into the export-import business. Desi, who was 16, enrolled in St. Patrick's High School (his closest friend was Al Capone's son Albert), and got a part-time job cleaning canary cages for a firm which sold birds to local drugstores. He soon found steadier work as a guitarist in a four-piece band incongruously called the Siboney Sextette. The critics agreed on Desi's meager musical gifts. "He was always off-beat," says Theater...
Coffee is the No. 1 U.S. import. Last year, according to the Department of Commerce, the U.S. bought $1,361,000,000 worth of it, almost all of it from 13 Latin American countries. This was about 12% of all that the U.S. spent for goods from abroad, and it was 40% of all Latin American overseas sales...
American bounty had made up most of the deficit. Since 1948 the United Jewish Appeal has sent in $280 million; another $125 million came from Israeli bonds sold in the U.S. The U.S. Government contributed another $200 million in such forms as Export-Import Bank Loans, Point Four aid and Mutual Security Assistance. But now Congress, which had voted as much aid to tiny Israel in 1952 as to all the other Mid-East states combined, seemed disinclined to continue the pace. This week, as the U.S. Government, responding to an emergency plea from Tel Aviv, sped $11 million...