Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris and London. In the House of Commons, Laborite Leader Clement Attlee asked whether the Bermuda meeting would be preliminary to "a talk with Mr. Malenkov." Answered Churchill: "Yes, sir. It is my main hope that we may take a definite step forward to a meeting of far greater import." In the National Assembly, Mayer said: "The aim . . . will be to define . . . unity of views on the problems to be debated during a four-power meeting . . ." But Washington leaks insistently denied that the Big Three conference was necessarily a preliminary to anything. And from New Delhi, Secretary of State John...
Like all other people, the British must cat. But their tight little island does not produce enough foot to supply them all, so they have to import the deficit. To import they must also export. They export, among other things, movies. A good Alec Guinness or Laurence Olivier production is probably good for quite a few main dishes. But there is also the dessert--or "sweet"--to be considered, and perhaps even an after-dinner smoke, blended from Virginia tobacco. To make a life of austerity bearable such pictures as I Believe in You are made and exported...
...weeks and 1,250,000 words of debate, the tidelands bill to grant seaboard states title to their marginal seas to the limit of their historic boundaries, sent it back to the House. ¶ Passed, over strong objections by Majority Leader Robert A. Taft, a bill authorizing the Export-Import Bank to write insurance against war damage and seizure on cotton and other American products shipped to friendly countries, sent it to the House. Taft called it "a very unfortunate extension of government in business . . . out of line with everything which the Republican Party has said it was going...
...businessmen, has supported extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. It recognizes that the United States is no longer a junior nation with fledgling industries; it is a creditor nation with responsibility to all the people here and abroad. Rather than setting higher tariffs and new import quotas and pumping more aid into Europe, Congress should give Eisenhower's proposed Study Commission a chance to formulate a sensible tariff policy. It should extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements, following the International Business Machine slogan "THINK," rather than racing into costly, isolationist barriers to trade...
...Sent Congress a reorganization plan for the Export-Import Bank, to abolish a cumbersome board of directors, concentrate management in a single director...