Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Rojas is permanently to solve Colombia's critical problems, he must first develop a long-range policy for freeing the economy from its exclusive dependence on coffee. Because of this pernicious one-crop system, Colombia has been forced to import chocolate for home consumption, despite the fact that she was once the world's leading producer of cacao. Though she has at Medellin one of the world's most efficient textile mills, Colombia does not raise enough cotton for her own needs. Despite a 95 million dollar loan from the World Bank for highway and railroad construction, she still...
...loans, to Mexico for railway refurbishing and to Uruguay for electric-power development, were announced last week by the Export-Import Bank of Washington and the World Bank...
...Mexico loan, $23,260,000, was the last installment of a $150 million credit earmarked for Mexico by the Export-Import Bank in 1950 to cover a variety of projects. One of the Mexican railroad systems' biggest problems is a lack of engines to haul its rolling stock, so about half the money will be used to buy diesel locomotives, both road and switcher types. Most of the remaining cash will be spent on rails, switches, communication equipment and electrical supplies...
...race with Soviet Russia and Britain to win the world market for atomic power plants, the U.S. sprinted a furlong ahead last week. The Export-Import Bank said it will extend loans to friendly governments and private foreign utilities that want to buy nuclear reactors, fuel and know-how from U.S. companies. Borrowers must pledge that they will join forces with the U.S. Government to develop the peaceful atom, and they may buy or lease their atomic fuel from the Atomic Energy Commission. Thus the future atomic industries of the borrowers would be married to the West rather than...
...knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with a Galahad-pure flame of romance. Ashe chucks everything to pursue "the most beautiful woman in the world...