Word: importe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except in very unusual circumstances, loans will be granted only to pay for materials which the borrowing nation must import. Thus no country will be able to run a domestic WPA on loans from the Bank...
...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...
Professor Harris will speak on the relative roles of Government and Business in the control of our natural resources after the war. He is the editor of an anthology of post-war economics, and was formerly Director of the Office of Export and Import Price Control...
...Jersey, Teresa Truax, 19 months, was gravely ill with leukemia. Her father, Sergeant Elmer Truax, was Somewhere in the South Pacific. Only the Commander in Chief of the South Pacific area could approve a furlough, and communications to him must be only on matters of military import. But Mrs. Truax kept trying. Last week she got a letter cold, with official language, warm with hope: The matter was receiving the "attention of the appropriate officials of the War Department." Teresa's mother beamed: "I guess we're getting some action...
...liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import in 1944 to 14,300,000 gal.-the already swollen 1943 level. At least in principle, FEA agreed to apply the same pressure to the rest of the Caribbean...