Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan to set up the book center on a scale similar to the non-profit exchange at MIT. Under the MIT plan, a student deposits a book at the exchange to be sold by a set date. If not sold, he must either remove the book or sign an agreement giving the exchange power to dispose of it at its discretion...
...Carnegie Project will seek "to codify previous study on the subject." Professor Parsons said, and "to bring out areas of agreement." At present, he reported, difficulties arise because experts in the different divisions of Social Relations see a subject from opposite perspectives...
Russian officials in the four-power city control board had lately consented to a joint battle against the potato bug. They agreed that East & West should honor each other's postage stamps-and then urged the West Berliners to buy stamps cheaper with soft Soviet marks ("Every agreement we make, we lose," lamented a U.S. official...
...studio knew what it was getting. In his 14 years, Zanuck has won two Irving Thalberg Memorial Awards for high-quality production, two Oscars (for Gentleman's Agreement and How Green Was My Valley), and a reputation as Hollywood's outstanding topical trailblazer (The Snake Pit, Pinky). What Zanuck was getting: $260.000 a year (his present salary) for the next 10 years, then an annual $150,000 for his advice...
...present deadlock in the Committee came Saturday when a previously-adopted agreement over fixed parity was scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks...