Word: important
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito is also anxious, Mather said, for additional American loans from the Export-Import Bank and for loans from the International Bank...
...pointed to the economic help for Latin America already going forward under the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, but he reaffirmed the U.S. desire to see "the job ahead . . . done through private initiative." He approved the results of such U.S.-sponsored economic surveys as last winter's Abbink Mission to Brazil, and emphasized the State Department's readiness to send out others like...
Blue Lagoon (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is a British import which might better have been dropped in the South Pacific, where much of it was filmed. Purporting to be a South Sea-romance, it is actually about as long-winded and emotionally fogbound as a Norse saga...
...Shubert, whose theatrical real-estate empire controls half of Manhattan's playhouses, was trying to keep ahead of the game. In 1948-49, he knew, radio and television had taken over five legitimate theaters. To keep his houses from gathering cobwebs, "Mister Lee" planned to import at least four plays from London and possibly produce some himself...
...also moaned about the scarcity of good scripts. It was an old lament, but this time it rang true. Many established playwrights seemed to be between plays. Of shows hopefully announced for production so far, only a handful involved old hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill (a London import); a Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven and Earth...