Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wreck of the World Economic Conference last year the International Wheat Conference salvaged and signed an export quota agreement which acts of the Almighty have greatly assisted its signatories to keep (TIME, Sept. 11). Of the Big Four signatories?U.S., Argentina, Canada and Australia?only Argentina has wholly escaped the searing blight of drought, and last week only Argentina had broken her agreement, exporting 34,000,000 more bushels of wheat than the 110,000,000 she accepted as her limit. Even so drought has struck savagely enough to keep the Big Four from exceeding their combined quota...
...This is a solid achievement to the credit of the international wheat agreement!" cried genial John I. McFarland, manager of the Canadian Wheat Pool. Other delegates saw no reason to contradict him. The nation which, on a percentage basis, had most flagrantly broken its pledge happened to be the Conference's host last week, hence could not in decency be flayed. Solemnly His Majesty's Government gave its word last year "not to encourage any extension of the area sown," then went blithely ahead paying subsidies to wheat growers in Great Britain with the result that the Kingdom's acreage...
...last week world wheat was at 55.6 gold cents per bushel, or almost exactly where it was a year ago. Only where farmers have been bamboozled by making money worth less does wheat seem to them to be worth more. Still inoperative are clauses in last year's wheat agreement which were to reduce tariffs should the price climb even to a measly 63 gold cents...
...gentlemen of the British Foreign Office the Manchester mass meeting was, after all, only a gathering of persons in trade. Stiffly the Foreign Office reported that the Berlin Embassy had just obtained an agreement under which the Reichsbank would pass payments due on British goods imported into Germany after Aug. 20, 1934. This agreement did not cover the £1,500,000 already owing on yarn. Also it was "terminable without notice in the event of endangering the stability of the mark." In short. British diplomacy had let Lancashire down...
...base of the wave behind, was found to be tilted up at an angle 11 ° 50'. Using this angle and the distance from bridge to stern the wave-height was computed by trigonometry, and like computations were made from other observers' measurements. The results, in good agreement, put the wave height from trough to crest...