Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apparently, the Russians have conveniently chosen to ignore the results of last August's Geneva conference which produced East-West agreement on the technicalities of disarmament. At that meeting non-political Soviet experts agreed on the feasability of an inspection system with 180 nuclear-testing stations located throughout the world. But little has been said about that conference, if it has been mentioned...
Nevertheless, if any constructive agreement on disarmament is to come out of this present conference, the final plan will have to include provisions for inspection and enforcement of a test ban. Western diplomats must remain firm on this point, whatever its propaganda disadvantages, and wait for the Soviets to compromise their proposal to include more practical considerations...
...United States has offered no explanation for its insistence on a yearly ban rather than a long-term cessation of testing. Some members of the Administration's higher echelons who have never favored a ban on nuclear testing have added to that feeling their political distrust of any agreement whatsoever with the Russians. It would seem that they have been mildly successful in persuading the Administration to move at a halting pace in the negotiations...
Then RCA President John L. Burns sat in on the negotiations. In what the department considers "a stroke of industrial statesmanship," an agreement was reached on a color TV patent pool...
...traffic. They will turn over all earnings, after taking out operating expenses, to the strikebound line. The pact's major immediate effect: competitors United, American, Eastern, T.W.A. will give Capital enough funds to cover its $50,000-a-day loss in operating revenue. But if CAB disapproves the agreement, Capital will have to return the handouts...