Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clock Watchers. Elsewhere, other unions raced the clock and beat it with management's help. In New York City, the day before deadline, the C.I.O.'s Communist-dominated United Electrical Workers got a union-shop agreement from the Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. In Cleveland, the big, strong International Typographical Union's convention adopted a policy of not signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped...
Washington talked comparable drivel. Experts there blamed the British for not foreseeing the "run on the bank." Washington's own overoptimism was dying hard. It still professed hopes of a freer trading world, based on the agreement which 18 nations had reached last week at Geneva. But nobody in Washington had a clear answer to this question: How was the world going to move toward freer trade until a businessman could once again walk into a bank and exchange one currency for another at a rate fixed by the operation of free markets...
Last week a "high Finnish source" let it out that Moscow wanted a new trade agreement, would like to start negotiations in October. It was a cloud on the horizon, and no one could say-yet-whether it was bigger or smaller than a man's hand. The Finns hoped that Moscow was not disturbed by the fact that,-on one recent day, there were 17 U.S. ships in Helsinki harbor...
...money for at least six months (only those films which were imported after the tax was announced are subject to it). Another was that Britain's tax, although set upas an import duty, seemed in effect an income tax-and therefore in violation of an Anglo-American agreement designed to prevent double taxation on incomes. Hollywood felt that perhaps Britain could not make the tax stick...
Young drew.blood. Like every railroadman, Young had heard of the reported "gentleman's agreement" by which western railroads since 1934 have slowed their fastest freight lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...