Word: importantly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...elected, with the help of his steamroller machine. Arnulfo Arias is a young and patriotic man who fears his native land is losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence...
...tons of manganese ore, urgently needed by the Spanish steel industry, and a cargo of jute from India. Spain contracted to send her entire export crop of bitter oranges and large quantities of sweet oranges to England, and was assured of an end to difficulties over the import of seed potatoes...
Industrial Shanghai was sinking fast. In the business not taken over by Japanese, import and export restrictions cut off raw materials and closed markets for the goods which could be manufactured. Cotton mills had reduced their output 30%. The tea and silk trades were at a standstill. U. S. oil companies were grimly bucking a Japanese attempt to establish a monopoly...
...these devices Canada hoped to save $5,000,000 worth of foreign exchange a month, to enlarge her tax revenues and expand her war industries. Like Britain, she was running short of dollars with which to pay for her vast purchases of war goods from the U. S. Her imports from the U. S. are exceeding exports by an estimated $280,000,000 for 1940 - more than twice as much as in 1939. To settle the balance she will have some $200,000,000 of newly mined gold. By the new import bans, by taxes and by increased tourist trade...
...Before World War II Western sugar-beet farmers were content to import European seeds for each year's crop. It was cheaper than paying U. S. labor to gather their own. Foreseeing a shortage, Oregon beet farmers planted 1,000 acres of seed for 1940 harvest, nearly doubled the acreage for 1941. It has been a profitable operation. Selling at 7½? a lb., beet seed nets Oregonians a neat $125 an acre...