Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have made these concessions provided they could have secured a satisfactory long-term agreement which would prevent further strikes. But the definition of a "satisfactory long-term agreement" was the sticking point. The operators wanted something that would last perhaps ten years, and realizing the futility of trying to fix wages for so long a period, felt it necessary to include a provision for periodic adjustment of wagesate resort in case negotiation failed. Right there was the centre of the disagreement. The miners demanded concessions. The operators would have been willing to grant most of these concessions, provided they could...
...trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru has been incensed by the alleged "Chileanization" of Tacna-Arica by Chile in an attempt to "fix" the plebiscite...
...President obligingly made known what was going on. An invitation had been received the week before to have the U. S. represented at a conference of 18 nations at Geneva on Feb. 15. This conference is to fix the place, the date and the matter for consideration, etc., of a later conference which is to deal with disarmament by land...
Dispassionate observers reluctantly opined that Chile appears to be nervous lest General Pershing should announce that he has discovered further Chilean attempts to "fix" the plebiscite during the period of "needless delay...
Guilty Greece. The special Commission sent to fix responsibility for the Greco-Bulgar unpleasantness (TIME, Nov. 2, 9) issued a printed report last week laying the entire blame for the invasion of Bulgarian territory by Greek troops upon Greece. The report recommended to the Council of the League of Nations that Greece pay an indemnity of 20,000,000 leva ($146,000) to cover the material losses suffered by the Bulgarians, and 10,000,000 leva as restitution due the Bulgarian Government for "loss of lives, loss of working days, moral suffering by the population and the costs incurred...