Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boylston street, this unlabored decor has captured a rare kind of leisure for Henry IV. "Even the Americans," Genevieve claims, "seem to cat slower and really enjoy themselves here at night. And I discovered that Americans like fancy things after all; snails are the most popular dish. I import them from France, but the sauce, the most important part, is made right here...
...Genevieve's ability to draw her world of French and Italian friends around her in her restaurant. Speaking French or Spanish almost all day at the restaurant, she says her English has even deteriorated since she came to this country. On her own, she mastered Italian and plans to import an Italian expresso coffee machine as well as bull fight, flags to give the restaurant a "Latin" feeling...
...Bridgeport, Wash. A $6,238,373 bid by Britain's English Electric Co. Ltd. undercut closest American competition by $931,788, or 13%. But the Buy American Act of 1933 requires federal purchase of U.S.-made goods unless the U.S. price is more than 25% higher than an import...
...Dublin's shy, serious Composer Gerard Victory, 31, Ireland's harp has been silent too long. Ireland has a single professional symphony, a host of amateur choral societies which stick pretty closely to Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation, two opera societies which import stars for about seven weeks a year of old-fashioned grand opera, a green countryside full of amateur balladeers, and that is about all. Composer Victory decided to do something about it, last week unveiled in Dublin the world's first opera in Gaelic...
...half of the Japanese exports, are in the doldrums. The textile industry was one of the first to be revived after the war, and by 1951, Japan was the world's largest exporter of cotton goods. But the worldwide textile recession diminished Japan's markets. There were import cuts by Australia, South Africa, Singapore and Britain. Many Asiatic countries, such as Pakistan, which once bought from Japan, have built up industries of their...