Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy will import such valuable potential wartime supplies as naphtha and manganese, vital peacetime products such as coal, lumber, wheat and barley. Symbolic of their new pocketbook friendship was the launching at Livorno last week of a small destroyer, Italian-built for the Russian Navy...
...Ministry attributed the coffee famine to "various interruptions in German-Brazilian trade, caused by pressure from the U. S." Brazil has occasionally broken off her barter dealings with Germany, but they are not broken now. Real causes for the German shortage are three: 1) determination of the Nazis to import more war materials, less foodstuffs; 2) extensive additional needs of coffee-addicted Austria; 3) a Nazi practice of selling imported Brazilian coffee to Central Europe to bring in much-needed foreign currencies...
Unannounced by the Argentine Government and vigorously denied by its representatives in the U. S., an unofficial ban on U. S. goods has prohibited the majority of importers from bringing U. S. products into Argentina since the first of the year. Behind this prohibition many observers detected the heavy hand of John Bull. Because she buys from Argentina far more than she sells to her, Britain has always been high in Argentina's favor. The U. S. (except when the 1935-37 drought necessitated unusual imports of Argentine grain) ordinarily buys less from Argentina than she sells her, does...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to carry Russian supplies over her new motor road from Siberia...
...played in concert halls comes from the broad musical meadows of Central Europe. But most of the tunes that set people dancing or whistling come from their own musical back yards. For want of a home-grown product even half as good, non-Germanic countries have had to import a large part of their concert music. But during the past 75 years composers in other countries have struggled to raise their own distinct national types of concert music, to produce symphonies, quartets, operas that are 100% Russian, Hungarian or American (jazz). Some have been fairly successful, especially those, like...