Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, had had a bad time under the Nazis. He had even been thrown in jail, where he had had time to worry not only about what the Germans were doing, but also about those foreign nations who were supporting Hitler: a sharp reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...
...Absence. In time, Salem also became Nasser's propaganda minister. The dancing major insisted on calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal...
...next day, 22 hours after its workers went on strike, American Motors (Nash, Hudson) became the first of the Little Three (others: Willys, Studebaker-Packard) to sign a pact with a guaranteed annual wage. But struggling American, which currently produces 2.3% of the industry output, won important concessions at the last minute. It will not begin payments into the special G.A.W. trust fund until Sept. 15, 1956, more than a year after the Big Three, will thus save 5? an hour on 24,000 workers during the pact's first year...
Promoted to serve as ambassador to Russia, then to Great Britain, Shigemitsu ineffectively opposed the runaway Japanese expansion into the Pacific that led to the crash of Pearl Harbor. He opposed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy. In war-torn (1941) London Winston Churchill wrote of Shigemitsu: "His whole attitude throughout was most friendly . . . We have no doubt where he stands...
...write the new pact, both G.E. and the union had given ground. Though the I.U.E. at first insisted on a guaranteed annual wage like the one the auto workers got, the union quickly gave in when G.E. turned the idea down cold. In turn, the company agreed to a hefty $100 million package that would raise the average hourly pay for 100,000 I.U.E. workers by 34? over the next five years, give them what amounts to another 10? in fringe benefits...