Word: according
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, the regular Army had already begun to pare its hangnails. Last week the War Department announced that 170 regular officers had been recommended for removal by a secret board of five general officers. Sixty-six, facing a hearing, applied for retirement of their own accord...
Mysterious Accord. Day after President Avila Camacho dropped his gentle hint, the New York Times reported from Washington that an oil settlement is indeed in the making. It will be part of a general agreement with Mexico for economic and military defense of the Western Hemisphere...
...State Department was discreetly and mysteriously silent about this reported accord. But that some such agreement must be made was amply clear, if Mexico and the U.S. are to continue working together on defense. Mexico's economy has suffered considerably since the war cut off her European markets. The money to pay for those oil properties cannot possibly be dug out of Mexico's pocket. But expropriation of her natural resources is a point of national honor to all good Mexicans. Possible solutions: 1) Mexico will offer the oil companies long-term leases to operate the expropriated properties...
...recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...price controls of one type or another, the businessmen were in accord (only 11% opposed). Votes for specific types: over wages, 62.6%; raw materials, 52.3%; wholesale prices, 30.8%; farm products, 30.7%; retail prices, 27.8%; all-or-none, 14.3%. But, surprisingly, the financial and investment executives in FORTUNE'S group were almost evenly divided on the prospects of a serious inflation. Half thought that price and currency controls would prevent...