Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
...famed Berlin-to-Bagdad link (which already functions to a point some miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital of Teheran and thence on to an undetermined point on the Caspian seashore...
...Berlin, Erich Kleiber, chief conductor of the State Opera, refused to take a five-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera of Manhattan. He took the advice of the Prussian Minister of Fine Arts, anticipated another successful season in Berlin...
...Manhattan, Jimmy Walthour Jr., amateur bicycle champion of the U. S., signed a professional contract in which there was a clause forbidding him to marry for six years. He is not to be confused with his cousin Bobby Walthour Jr., professional rider, who is married...
...others do not. At any rate they have taken steps to get it. The president-general, undaunted by a die-hard faction that called her "King George", and made ominous accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with the delicate problem of members pins out of the way, the situation, whatever...