Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates on Long Island, unwilling to impose trusteeship by force, had less & less chance of getting a truce by agreement...
Traditionally, most Canadians have opposed outright union with the U.S., whether economic or political. More recently they have favored a close working agreement which they call "economic integration." By this, they mean: 1) letting each country produce the things it can produce best and selling them in a combined market; 2) cutting tariffs selectively, here & there-but not wholesale...
Reopened Door. After months of negotiations Cities Service Co., and Antonio Bermudez, boss of Mexico's government-owned oil monopoly Pemex, signed a historic agreement in Mexico City. The deal brought a major U.S. oil company into Mexican oil development for the first time since 1938, when expropriation drove most foreign companies out. Under the deal Cities Service will set up a Mexican subsidiary (Mexico-Cities Service Petroleum Corp.) to provide the capital, and presumably the machinery and technical help, for Pemex's development of a million-acre tract in northeastern Mexico...
Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories...
Under the agreement, the new occupants took over all responsibility for the house, paying taxes, repairing, gas, and electric bills. The papers were signed, and the work began last June...