Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, to Japanese radio listeners, American-style soap opera was a popular import. But by last week the pleasant novelty was wearing thin. The sad fact is that Japanese audiences do not enjoy the soap opera's daily cliff-hang ending. As one top Japanese radio-TV official says: "They love intense drama, but it has to be short and complete...
...every dollar France gets in U.S. aid, she now spends 75? to import coal from the U.S. at ruinously expensive prices. Coal that costs $10 a ton in Pennsylvania sells for $22 a ton in Europe, after shipping costs are added...
...German output for export (mainly to France), French steelmen complain that Ruhr shipments of coke and coal have fallen by 25% since 1949. And German nationalists are whipping up resentment against compulsory coal exports: they accuse the Allies of sending Ruhr coal abroad, and compelling Germany to import more expensive U.S. coal...
Last year, the Labor government tried to import 5,000 unemployed Italians to work in the pits (70,000 could be used). For every miners' lodge that agreed to take Italians, four turned thumbs down. In one area, 93 out of 100 pits refused to have "foreigners." So far, only 600 Italians are at work...
...Korean war. NPA will continue its ban on white sidewall tires (to save natural rubber and titanium-dioxide pigments), and inventories of synthetic will be policed to prevent hoarding. But U.S. manufacturers will get all the synthetic rubber they need, and once again will be allowed to import natural liquid rubber...