Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles is a non-military airship, received by the U. S. from Germany under an Allied agreement specifying that it be used only for training and experimental purposes, never for war. But the plane-hooking experiment furnished knowledge of speeds, stresses, handling, valuable in the fabrication of the Navy's two huge dirigibles, twice the size of the Los Angeles, by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. at Akron, Ohio. The new ships will have built-in hangars in which to store and carry planes...
Having shunned the issue for three years, the Deputies were faced last week with ratifying the Mellon-Berenger Debt Agreement (TIME, July 8). No other course was open to them. They had either to ratify the agreement or pay a separate War supplies account of 400 millions...
This was not an admission of France's racial dislike of paying bills so much as admission that the debt agreement would have to be ratified...
Some weeks ago alert Prime Minister Benito Mussolini ferreted out the incident. Remembering the "consular agreement" which provides that Italy may settle the estate of any Italian citizen who dies while living temporarily in the U. S. and vice versa, Signor Mussolini instructed Consul Emanuele Grazzi at New York to file claim for the Comincio savings...
...manufacturing substances which Nature has been niggardly in supplying. Last week came evidence of a notable triumph by Science over Nature. European producers of synthetic nitrogen had so completely destroyed Chile's semimonopoly of natural nitrates that the Chilean producers were glad to sign a price-fixing agreement. Headed by Germany's famed I. G. Farbenindustrie, the European nitrogen industry convincingly demonstrated the superiority of mind over matter. Prices of nitrate vary with each port of delivery. The immediate result of the international agreement will be a 5% reduction in prices. U. S. ports, however, are open markets...