Word: departments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a Soviet Commission of Investigation has reported "the presence of about 400 tons of available gold in the 6,000 square miles of territory in the Aldan River District." Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, who have been flocking to this remote and inaccessible part of Siberia, were ordered to depart within one month by the local Soviet. Henceforth only Russians will be allowed to "work" the region, and it is alleged that they will be forced to exchange all gold mined for Soviet currency at a rate of 2½ chervonetz* ($14) an ounce. (Refined gold is worth $20 an ounce...
...Negotiations. The history of the attempts to reach a final debt accord is simple: a French proposal, an American counterproposal, a second French proposal-all rejected. Then as M. Caillaux was about to depart the Americans made an offer for a tentative arrangement, which M. Caillaux said he would take home and think over...
...empty embassy at Tokyo and the delicate situation in the Far East are calling him as soon as he can arrange to depart from Manhattan...
...Hammond, and not the mine workers, who proposes that the Federal Administration shall cast overboard its policy of non-interference with business. It is Mr. Hammond who proposes that the Republican majority in Congress shall depart from its traditional policy and, through legislation, establish a semi-regulation of the anthracite industry...
...appear again that night, the distinguished old gentleman would depart, hoping the next night to avoid a boring banquet, to return to the theatre early, having a seat...