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...settle for less, Figueres listed another set of proposals he had made to United Fruit's chairman. Here he got much more specific: pending future sale of its Costa Rican assets, the company should now 1) accept a boost in its corporation tax from 15% to 50%, 2) forgo its tariff exemptions and pay the regular 25% duty on its stores and equipment imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSTA RICA: Buy United Fruit? | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...forgo, from next Jan. 1, all further East German reparations and to cancel her postwar debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Feast of Friendship | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...Asked the White House News Photographers to forgo the traditional toast to the President at their annual dinner, and propose instead a substitute toast to the troops in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Promise Fulfilled | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...assistance in Indo-China. The details were left to future conference, but the French hoped for American Indo-China aid of $800 million a year. In return, they would promise a planned effort to end the war in Indo-China in two years, probably backed with an offer to forgo any but military aid in continental France after 1953. The French learned also that the U.S. would not be bound by an armistice in Korea if the Chinese Communists took advantage of it to invade Indo-China. Said one French conferee: "Before this visit there was a moral tie between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Exploration | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Julius Patzak, tenor; the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter; London). These six songs were intended as Mahler's ninth symphony, but a personal superstition made him forgo the title. The dusky warmth of Ferrier's singing, the bright clarity of Patzak's, and the lurid orchestral colors run the gamut of gaiety and sadness. A definitive recording...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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