Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine print in a lease, Delegate Austin announced that the U.S. had changed its mind on Palestine. The U.S. no longer supported partition. Instead, Austin declared, "My government believes that a temporary trusteeship for Palestine should be established . . .to maintain the peace [until] Jews and Arabs . . . reach an agreement regarding the future government of that country...
Russians and Americans are in agreement on few of these value premises. Professor Kluckhohn said, and he urged that we turn to the physical sciences and see what we can learn about value in order to promote "a larger synthesis...
William Yandell Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of Government, and Clyde M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, found themselves "in two-thirds agreement" last night in a Graduate Forum on "Fact and Value in the Social Sciences," but parted company on whether the scientific method was valid in searching for fundamental value...
Though the 75% tax is abolished, Hollywood will not be able to take any more money out of Britain than-before. Out of a $68 million U.S. take at the British box office (1946 figure), the tax would have left Hollywood a maximum of $17 million; the new agreement places a $17 million limit on the amount of profits which can be taken out in dollars. All profits above that must be kept in Britain in nonconvertible sterling. Hollywood can invest this money in British-made pictures* or in whatever enterprises a special U.S.-British board will approve...
...newsmen whom he had summoned to his office, John said: "Your ears will soon be assailed by [the operators'] outcries and wails of anguish. To relieve themselves, they need only to comply with the provisions of the agreement." He had alerted his 400,000 soft-coal miners...