Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something more solid than speculation to come out of the most hush-hush series of conferences since the war, there were certain facts and probabilities to keep in mind. One was that the Kremlin would probably ot be willing to lift the Berlin blockade in return for a mere agreement to confer...
...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...
...language during a weekend cruise on the Potomac. The speech would go back over most of the same ground he had already covered at Philadelphia (TIME, July 26): federal aid to education, an increased minimum wage, a civil-rights program. Two added starters: approval of the international wheat agreement and the $65 million loan to build U.N.'s permanent headquarters...
...Plot. Hoffman spoke softly. But his voice carried clearly across the Seine to the Hotel de Tabac, where an OEEC committee had been wrangling over a plan to loosen Europe's currency restrictions. Quickly, the committee reached a tentative agreement. If the details could be successfully worked out and agreed on, the plan would permit Western Europe's nations to buy more easily from each other, thereby relieving some of the strain on the U.S. economy...
Some of RFC's other conditions had never been met. For one thing, Strandlund had never filed a financial statement with RFC. Although by the loan agreement he had to raise $3,500,000 through the sale of capital stock, he had actually raised only $850,000. Strandlund's own equity in Lustron (86,000 shares of stock nominally worth $860,000) had been bought by him for only $1,000. This stock, plus the equipment bought with the proceeds of the capital stock issue, had been Strandlund's only security for the first loan. Last week...