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Word: agreements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Britain, armed with last month's $4.03 to $2.80 devaluation of the pound, resumed her fight to wipe out her dollar deficit and thus get back on her feet economically. University economists found themselves in general agreement this week that devaluation should prove a big stimulus to recovery and that there isn't much Soviet Russia can do about...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Faculty Experts Applaud Devaluation | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...financing of the 27 million dollar project is being handled by a group of private investors who will operate the toll system on the bridge until the capital plus interest is paid off. By 1978, the toll profits should exceed the original cost and the bridge, as per previous agreement, will became public property...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

...that steel's profits were large enough to absorb the full cost of the pension and welfare plans. Nevertheless, Steelman Fairless was on firm ground when he insisted that this was a matter to be thrashed out at the bargaining table. That was a part of the original agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The War of the Wires | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Assembly's provisional 60-point agenda read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Painful Perennials | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed a rally and captured it. Three years later, by mutual agreement, the Axe was made a Big Game trophy to be displayed in the student union of the winning team until the next Big Game. During the game, it is waved vigorously by the school which last won it, and after the game it is regularly presented by California's Governor...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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