Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agitators a big boost. Thereafter, calm discussion of the bases deal was impossible. Politicos, their eyes on next May's presidential election, began to play it safe. Last week, after 10,000 people paraded outside the National Assembly, a special committee brought out reservations designed to sidetrack the agreement...
Until the U.S. began to spend, Canada must struggle along with makeshift measures, notably import and foreign exchange restrictions. Last week, another makeshift was adopted. Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament that a 91-day agreement had been reached with Britain on food contracts (TIME, Dec. 15). The stopgap deal wall expire on March 31-the day before ERP is expected to go into effect...
...turbulent year in office, President Gabriel González Videla has gambled a lot, and always won. Last week, his victories over the Communists behind him, he was ready to gamble again. Just one year after signing the $175,000,000 trade agreement with Juan Perón (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), he sent the treaty to Congress for ratification...
Under the agreement, Chile would ship coal, iron and copper to Argentina. But, said other critics, after the new steel plant at Concepción is completed in 1949, Chile will have no coal to export, may even have to import coal from the U.S. to keep going. In the end, they were sure Argentina would get a stranglehold on Chile's economy...
Gentleman's Agreement. Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck in a polemic against anti-Semitism (TIME...