Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-pronged bridge connecting Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens over Hell Gate. The Public Works Administration was ready to give the city $7,200,000 outright for this triborough span, lend it $37,000,000 more. The Triborough Bridge Authority had yet to sign its Federal loan agreement, arrange for bids on the contract. Estimated employment...
Thus 50,000,000 bushels of export wheat were left to be supplied by the other considerable exporter, Russia. The Soviet delegate signed the agreement but refused to limit exports to a definite figure. Diplo- mats and wheat experts were not perturbed. Private investigations and the unofficial admissions of Russian delegates show that this year Russia will not possibly be able to export more than 50,000,000 bushels. Reason: famine, or as Moscow correspondents find it wiser to say, "mal-nutrition...
After nearly a week of suspicious sniffing, Argentine Delegate Thomas Le Breton last week received in London his Government's assent and signed the international wheat agreement, drawn up fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 4). By it the exporting countries agreed to divide between them a total export quota of 560,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming year, and cut their exportable production 15% for 1934-35. The agreement runs until July 31, 1935, provides an advisory committee to adjust quotas. Importing nations agree to lower their tariffs when the world wheat price has reached 63.08? gold...
Impressed reporters have called Vice Commissar Karakhan the "cleverest living Asiatic." An Armenian with Turkish forebears, he was educated in Vladivostok and made his career the winning of China for Communism and the Soviet. He went to China in 1923 to negotiate a Chinese-Soviet treaty of recognition and agreement. Accepted as Ambassador at Peking in 1924 he worked hard for two years to accomplish his dream. Brilliant talker, genial host, Leo Karakhan is also one of the few athletic Soviet leaders: he plays first-rate tennis. His house in Peiping became a meeting place for the intelligentsia of north...
...consideration of your making a loan of $950,000 to the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., this letter will evidence the agreement of the undersigned with your corporation that the management of said railroad company will undertake immediate negotiations looking toward merger, consolidation or unification...