Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound; 2) thus France can continue to buy commodities in the sterling area with francs at a reasonable rate, Britain can supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country will raise foreign loans without consultation; 4) both will collaborate on internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could...
...first day of the war, the women in Paris, by a spontaneous and almost common accord, left their hats m their closets and sallied forth bareheaded...
...column reported that Artic Shaw was going to be forced out of the music business. Last week Shaw apparently refuted this story by giving out a statement to the effect that he was sick and tired of the band business and was going to leave it of his own accord; that his income for the next year would have been around a quarter of a million dollars, but that he couldn't be bothered with such material things; and that therefore he was leaving for good. At this moment Shaw is somewhere in Texas with general destination Mexico...
...believe that to accord the creditor his full right of priority against the corporate assets . . . the stockholders' participation must be based on a contribution in money or in money's worth...
...wholesale transfers which began last week are not in accord with the intention of those who wrote and voted for the recent neutrality legislation, Wild believes, since Congress intended that no American ships should carry goods to belligerents, regardless of what flag they were flying...