Word: agreements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Matter. Lanky John S. Bugas, Ford's industrial relations chief, hotly denied that the company was welching on the original "gentlemen's agreement." But, since the U.A.W. had brought the plan up as a strike issue, the company would also use it as a club; it threatened to withdraw the whole scheme. The union set a strike deadline. A long strike would surely cost the workers the shiny pension model which Ford had offered them. This week the strike was postponed pending more negotiation. But the threat of a struggle neither side wanted remained...
...walkout (TIME, July 14), the Soviet Union hastily buttressed its economic spite-fence. In 30 days, twelve new trade pacts were signed between Moscow and satellites, or satellites and satellites. Shotgun treaties herded satellites more snugly into the Soviet economic pen. One rueful, resigned Rumanian characterized a Soviet trade agreement: "It is more blessed for us to give than to receive...
...strong Germany. But Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, bolstered by a recent vote of confidence, was reportedly willing to discuss a U.S. proposal for upping Ruhr coal and steel production under a plan of internationalized management. For Bidault, this was political daring; for France, a long step toward agreement. Nevertheless, all the Western nations had was still only a basis for further talk...
...that Premier Paul-Henri Spaak felt free to answer was: "During the war we put at the disposal of the Allies all our uranuim. This agreement is still operating. It will be revised according to the decision to be taken...
Senator Libois was not appeased. He was sure that Belgium was still shipping most of its Congo uranium to the U.S. Libois was asked: "Do you oppose the agreement with America because you want it with Russia instead?" Unblinkingly he replied: "No, I oppose it because Belgium is literally giving away her riches...