Word: importence
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...Purpose. He turned to the kind of shrewd analysis of Communist forces which the U.S. seldom hears from its officials. The Russians, he said, have not yet attained a position from which they can accomplish the most important of their objectives, "economic containment and gradual strangulation of America . . . They know that our productive power, our economic strength is acutely dependent upon vast quantities of critical materials that we import from other sections of the globe. Their method, therefore, is to infiltrate those areas, to seize them, control them and so deny us those materials that we so badly need...
...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...never signed an international copyright agreement, anybody who has a Russian score can legally play it or record it without paying royalties. But Leeds thought it saw a way to plug that leak in the commercial dikes. It sent a man to Moscow and obtained an "exclusive" contract to import Russian master tape recordings. Now, says the publisher, any unauthorized record release in this country will be a violation of its property rights. A fortnight ago, Leeds sent stern notes to U.S. record manufacturers: before releasing Soviet performances, they would have to sign up (and pay up) or face lawsuits...
...uniform, Albuquerque did even better. He had a four-room suite of offices in Rio, and branches in three other cities; he bought a newspaper, formed an export-import firm, owned a fleet of 66 taxicabs and four taxi planes, launched a trucking business and bought a partnership in an established car-selling agency. Hourly his 22 messengers dashed out to pay off felipetas. Albuquerque declared that his greatest desire was "to put a copy of the New Testament in the hand and heart of every Brazilian...
...earning dollars again. Yet every time a foreign product begins to make a dent in the U.S. market, a familiar cry rises: raise tariffs. Two months ago, under heavy pressure from some U.S. watchmakers and their workers, the U.S. Tariff Commission joined the chorus. A majority reccommended that import duties on Swiss and other watches be jacked up as much...