Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, Britain and France agreed to hold hands economically as long as the war lasts. Last week, just to make sure, they joined themselves with silver handcuffs. The earlier agreement was to cooperate in the general fields of munitions, raw materials, economic warfare, oil, food, shipping. Last week's agreement covered the commodity which controls all those fields-money...
...expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country will raise foreign loans without consultation; 4) both will collaborate on internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish. It has been inspired by the same spirit that made possible...
...Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...
...Rudolf Holsti has played a prominent part in Finnish affairs. For two stretches he was Foreign Minister. At other times he has been the Finnish Minister to Latvia and Estonia and special delegate to the League of Nations. It was he who, as Foreign Minister, signed the "good-neighbor" agreement with the Soviet Union in February 1937. He and the then Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff became good friends...
General is the agreement that more realistic capitalization, plus economies of consolidation, equipment modernization, would make important rate reductions possible & profitable...