Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your story [Aug. 9] on Businessman Gottlieb Duttweiler . . . After World War II the Swiss government decided to continue egg rationing indefinitely, saying it was impossible to produce more than the 1½ eggs per month each Swiss had been allotted during the war. Duttweiler promptly made a deal to import several million eggs, sold them unrationed through his stores, and made the government look awful silly-needless to say, egg rationing was . . . canceled...
Longer & Wider. Even in Canada pro football is a relative newcomer to big-time sport. Prewar clubs drew small crowds, were no match for the hopped-up enthusiasm of intercollegiate competition. Then the pros began to import popular American stars, and as the quality of pro football picked up, so did the size of the rooting sections. November's Grey Cup. classic-the playoff for the professional championship-began to pack Toronto's Varsity Stadium (capacity...
Fruits of Folly. Inflation and other consequences of imprudence have caused Japan to spend too much for imports, much more than her high-priced exports can balance. (A Japanese refrigerator sells for around $500.) But not all of her troubles are the fruits of postwar folly. Before she lost her empire in the war, she got rice from Korea, wheat from Manchuria. Now she must import $400 million in food annually to feed her people. Her own rice crop last year was the poorest in 60 years. She has no coking coal of her own; her prewar source of supply...
...final stage of financial confidence when British pounds may be freely exchanged with dollars and other currencies? Within the next year "perhaps," answered Derick Heathcoat-Amory, Minister of State in the Board of Trade last week. Along with convertibility, said Tory Heathcoat-Amory, should come "the total abolition of import restrictions." Just how soon this happy day arrives, he added, depends on 1) Britain's own balance-of-payment situation; 2) whether the U.S. helps by liberalizing its own international trade policy...
...counter of the supermarket. Department stores use Federal Reserve Board retail-sales figures to plan buying and to control inventories. Railroads use Government figures for rate bases; makers of building materials and appliances base production on Commerce Department housing reports; shippers set up their schedules after looking over the import-export figures...