Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third assumption was that between 1956 and 1961 India could count on getting at least $1.6 billion in foreign aid. Proudly, the Indians asked for loans, not grants. A month ago Indian Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari signed an agreement with the Soviet Union for a twelve-year $125 million loan, and last week West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was on the verge of okaying $143 million in credits toward construction of a new steel plant in iron-rich Orissa. Other loans may come from Japan and the Colombo Plan nations...
...very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...
Fact is there is far from complete agreement on just what the summit leaders conference should accomplish, or how NATO should be changed. West Germany and Italy want each country to confer with its NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country...
...supposed to turn over to his halfbrother. He said he would go back to Samneua and Phongsaly to see if he could get another. The rest of Laos' ministers, all now technically royal and loyal, went nightclubbing. Communist broadcasters in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow were jubilant. "The agreement," said Radio Hanoi, "would serve as a model for the reunification of North and South Viet...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...