Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...None at all. . . . If we find it does, we'll discard the agreement...
...During the first seven months of the Canadian agreement exports of hams and shoulders to Canada increased 169%; and of other pork, pickled or salted, 329% as compared with the same period of 1935, while lard exports to Canada increased...
...present year there has been an increase in our imports of agricultural products. The increase in 1935 over 1934 amounted to $247,000,000. Of this amount, $75,000,000 represented wholly noncompetitive products-coffee, rubber, bananas, etc. Of the remainder, exclusive of sugar, which is governed by international agreement, only $13,000,000 was accounted for by commodities affected by the trade agreements...
...Elliott Roosevelt, aided by a business associate named Grenville W. Stratton, made an agreement with Anthony Fokker to sell military planes disguised as commercial types to U. S. S. R. Young Roosevelt was to form a company which was to receive a $25,000 retaining fee from Fokker. Son Elliott personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm...
...second step toward a better world of gold, U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. this week announced that the U. S., Britain and France had reached a temporary agreement for the exchange of that metal in the course of trade. Though Secretary Morgenthau called this pact, secretly negotiated by transatlantic telephone, a "new type of gold standard," it was really nothing more than a technical extension of the U. S.-Franco-British agreement of last month to use their respective stabilization funds to steady the dollar, the pound and the franc (TIME...