Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international routes and sell its fleet of 4 DC-6s and DC-6Bs. The government-subsidized air line needs $5,000,000 immediately to buy four Douglas DC-7s to compete with other carriers, another $15 million over the next ten years for jet liners. President Magsaysay would rather forgo the prestige of an international line, spend the money on rural projects and on improving domestic air service...
...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...
...forgo, from next Jan. 1, all further East German reparations and to cancel her postwar debts...
...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...
...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...