Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wiped out Japan's captive markets in Korea, Formosa and Manchuria, and the cold war has closed the door to trade with mainland China. Yet the old cries of Japanese underselling are still heard) Item: in Dublin last week, the Irish Rosary Council protested that even a 37.5% import duty was insufficient to keep out Japanese rosaries...
...familiar story of the tutor in one House who was overjoyed when he found he had two Group III tutees has more truth behind it than many would like to admit. Some Houses are so off-balance in the direction of the sciences or humanistic that they must import tutors from other Houses to compensate for their deficiencies. Other Houses are noted for their high percentages of prep-Schol graduates, or their athletes...
...scene, which requires near-perfect execution for success. Director Harold Scott has handled it admirably. His groupings, timing, and gestures are carefully thought out to exploit the opposing strains of modern jargon and idealistic declamation in Richards script, so that its humor is correctly balanced with its more sobering import. It is to Scott's credit that not a line is lost, especially in the expertly-managed final scene...
...Harold McClellan, chairman of the board of the National Association of Manufacturers. Other speakers from the U.S. will be: Eric Johnston, chairman of the International Development Advisory Board; Harvey S. Firestone Jr.; Dr. Milton Eisenhower; Eugene Black, president of the World Bank; General Glen Edgerton, president of the Export-Import Bank; James D. Mooney, former executive vice president of General Motors; and TIME'S Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce...
...revive exports and bring in more dollars. Meanwhile, Brazil urgently needed a stopgap dollar loan. Heeding the call for help, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland interrupted his visit to Cuba with Vice President Richard Nixon, flew to Rio. In less than 24 hours, Washington's Export-Import Bank announced a new $75 million credit to Brazil to finance essential imports from...