Word: importance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four overseas editions. For TIME'S circulation abroad is governed not only by reader interest and knowledge of English, but by a host of factors known to every U.S. foreign trader. Chief among them-because of the world-wide dollar shortage-are foreign government exchange controls and import restrictions...
...Legislation widening the lending authority of the Export-Import Bank so that the Bank can advance dollars needed to buy Canadian and Latin American goods for Europe...
Total funds, therefore, which Congress would be called upon to appropriate for next year were more than $9 billion. Not included were loans to Europe from the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank, which would not have to be appropriated by Congress. These loans would probably reach $1.5 billion the first year...
...Petrópolis: if Latin America must increase its exports of raw materials and foodstuffs to Europe by 30 to 50% in the next four years, as the plan calls for, another "war economy" will develop. Then workers will be drawn from industry into low-profit farming and mining; import of U.S. machinery will be difficult because Europe can't pay for Brazilian goods in dollars...
...picture-drum phonograph for as low as $9.44. For railroaders, Lionel has a remote-control milkman who delivers cans from a car. For builders, there is a construction set whose aluminum rods and plates can be clipped together into towers, windmills, etc. The carriage-trade ultimate is a British import: a $54.50 horse whose springs, under the weight of the body, will buck and carry a rider across a room...