Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were saved. Next day grim men sat in the U. S. Steamboat Inspector's office at San Francisco. All agreed that: 1) There was dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew was cowardly," blurted an angry survivor. Capt. H. O. Bleumchen of the Dodd testified: "The San Juan cut right across our path. Then I heard her three bells [reverse signal]. If she had gone...
...famed "Hoover yardstick" or system comparing the "fighting strengths" of vessels (as distinguished from comparing only their tonnage) to be used chiefly in arriving at an agreement to reduce cruiser strengths, reduction of smaller craft like destroyers to proceed on a basis of simple tonnage...
...Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young Plan. "They feel," said Mr. Lamont, allowing himself to be directly quoted, "that failure to reach some agreement would mean international derangement. They feel it would endanger the gold standard [of Sterling] and would threaten British financial losses far greater than £2,000,000 a year?...
...public is simply substituting the words 'military agreement' for 'military treaty' and continues to believe that Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Jugoslavia have arranged to combine their military strength in case of need...
...Inlets. Little progress has been made in efforts towards a national agreement to restrict production, an agreement which could end overnight any danger of oil drugging the market. Yet great hopes are held for the results of a California law which goes into effect in September. The law forbids oil production without proper efforts to conserve the natural gas which flows out with the oil. Enforcement of the law may reduce California's overproduction by some 250,000 barrels daily. California is at present yielding more oil than any other State. The result may be a reduction...