Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians constitute half of a 24-man delegation touring the United States for a month under an exchange agreement between the Soviet Youth Organization and the Council on Student Travel. They arrived in New York yesterday and will visit Philadelphia and Washington before returning to New York late next month...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26--A strike settlement agreement was reached by the Kaiser Corp. and the United Steelworkers of America today...
...Power "gentlemen's agreement" of 1946, which guarantees a Security Council seat for an East European nation, is also the agreement that guarantees two Security Council seats for Latin American nations. Although the U.S. maintains that the agreement was valid for only one year, the Latin Americans figured that a vote against Poland would mean certain Soviet-bloc opposition to perpetuation of their two seats. ¶The Latin Americans do not consider the Poland-Turkey contest a big issue even if the U.S. does. Adding Poland to Russia and neutralist Ceylon (which last week replaced Canada on the Security...
...traffic conference, the 90 airlines from 50 nations who belong to IATA could not agree on any general scheme of fare reductions on world air routes. The international rate-setting conference broke up in failure, and the stage was set for a rate war when the current air-fare agreement runs...
Writes Historian Mattingly at the end of his clear and perceptive account: "Historians agree that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was one of the Decisive Battles of the World, but there is much less agreement as to what it decided." Certainly not the war between Spain and England; that dragged on for nearly 14 years and ended in a draw. Nor did it cut down the Spanish colonial empire. What the defeat did accomplish, Mattingly argues, was to halt the spread of the Counter Reformation and provide the English with a handy legend of victory. "It raised...