Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close of the 1936-37 season last spring, Manager Specter and his socialite executive board set out to get 1) a stout purse, 2) a first-rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Londoners a week have filed reverently into Burlington House to see the annual winter show of the Royal Academy-this year a whopping display of 17th-Century European art to which the King lent four famed canvases by Rubens. Fortnight ago a smaller exhibition of larger import opened a few blocks away at the New Burlington Galleries and immediately began to draw comparable crowds. This was the first solo exhibition of England's five-year-old MARS (Modern Architectural Research) Group, which now numbers about 60 members in the United Kingdom and at least one, Harvard's Walter...
...specimens of the unemployed, checking up on working conditions in sweatshops. The natural result was not a baby but a book. Stuart Chase, who thus unconventionally introduced his bride to facts he considered fundamental, has spent his life introducing himself and his growing public to facts of deeper & deeper import. Primarily a popularizer of other men's ideas, Author Chase expresses each new enthusiasm in startling journalese. Without the authority of the learned or the wise, he has an indignant curiosity that is infectious. There are no satisfactory answers to be found in Stuart Chase. But at least...
...parceled it out to subcontractors, some of whom were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled workers have been working on the Trans-Iranian for the past four years, expect to finish the line in 1938. The $125,000,000 cost is being met by import taxes on sugar and tea, royalties on oil-which Shah Reza recovered for his countrymen...
There are two broad divisions of sugar consumption-the free world market and various domestic markets, such as that in the U. S., which are protected by import limitations. The International Sugar Pact limits only production for export, i.e. for sale in the world market. It sets this figure at 3,600,000 tons per year. But further voluntary limitation by certain exporting nations may cut it to about 3,400,000 in 1937-38 and 1938-39. This is slightly more than the present consumption of sugar in international trade, is therefore not very restrictionary. But it pleases sugar...