Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver reserve were sold. The Iranian rial lost more than half its value (worth about 6½? today), necessitating creation of Government monopolies for imports and exports, prohibition of entry or departure of Iran's paper or silver money. Food prices doubled, taxes trebled. To meet clearing agreement promises, large stores of grain, rice, dried fruits, some needed for home consumption, were exported. In one area His Imperial Majesty decreed that cotton should be grown instead of wheat. Drought ensued, the cotton crop failed, and to make matters worse the world's cotton market just then fell...
...Mussolini has of late become real in Egypt and the main declaration of Farouk's message was to place Egypt squarely behind Prime Minister Chamberlain and the British-Italian pact signed last week in Rome (see p. 16). Egyptian delegates attended the Rome conferences. "The Anglo-Italian agreement," declared Farouk, "is the surest guarantee of peace...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
Almost as Mr. Broun spoke, in San Francisco, only metropolis where all daily newspapers have a city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept...
Many a disaster has proved that the only safe gas to use in dirigibles is helium, and the world's helium comes from the U. S. Under an agreement with the U. S. made last year Germany was assured a supply of helium sufficient to operate its North Atlantic airship route, planned to commence service with the new LZ-130 in June. Then Hitler absorbed Austria and out of the welter of triumphant speeches the U. S. gathered that its helium might be used for war, held up the shipment. Last week Germany inquired through U. S. Ambassador Hugh...