Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pens and scratching of heads over President Roosevelt's temporary blanket code. To 5,000,000 employers postmen delivered 5,000,000 blank copies of this man-to-man "partnership" code for upping wages, reducing working hours, increasing purchasing power faster than prices. Thousands of employers signed the agreement quickly, heedlessly, sprinted to the post office to collect their free allotment of "NRA Member-We Do Our Part" advertising material. To each employer was given one large Blue Eagle placard, two small ones, five large square stickers, ten small oval stickers. And thousands of employers anxiously pondered the code...
Reticent about the quid pro quo, which will presumably involve the entrance of Austria and Hungary into an Eastern European bloc with Italy and the Little Entente, General Gömbös exclaimed: "My conversations with Premier Mussolini have shown the complete agreement of our views on all questions, political and economic. I am very pleased...
...scrutinize from Vienna's standpoint the trade agreement which General Gömbös brought home from Rome, Austria's alert, diminutive Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent his Minister of Commerce, Herr Friedrich Stockinger, hurrying to Budapest...
...grizzled chief, famed Philipp Heineken, and elected Nazi Helfferich to serve also as their board chairman. No plans whatever for the re-organization of Germany's two greatest shipping lines were announced. Last spring Chancellor Hitler gave correspondents to understand that he viewed with disfavor their close working agreement, thought they ought to compete more vigorously. Last week Double Chairman Helfferich, in whose person Hamburg-American and N. G. L. seemed definitely united, went blithely off for a country holiday, left officials of the two lines to carry on with only this vague injunction...
Trade Routes. Pan American regards itself as the U. S. merchant marine of the air. By agreement with domestic transport operators it stays outside the U. S. proper while they stay in. Pan American goes where foreign trade is, or where it can be developed. It carries the sample case, the estimate pad, the order book, the spare part. It gets heavy patronage from U. S. merchants in Brazil and Argentina, where Germany and France formerly enjoyed an enormous advantage by virtue of their seven-day shipments of merchandise and documents from Berlin and Paris, a schedule now equalled...