Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Committee and Governor Allan Shivers, who helped swing Texas to Eisenhower in 1952. Last month, during a Capitol Hill breakfast given by the Speaker of the House, "Mr. Sam" Rayburn of Texas, Chairman Butler and Governor Shivers conferred in the serving kitchen and agreed on an informal peace pact. Shivers privately agreed to choose a new national committeeman from Texas in place of his friend, Wright Morrow, long rebuffed by the National Committee...
...have been trained in the U.S. and on U.S. bases in Europe. The result is that Yugoslavia's army of some 250,000 well-trained men is the biggest in Europe outside the Iron Curtain. In 1953 Tito drew even closer to the West by signing a regional pact of mutual assistance with NATO partners Greece and Turkey, but he has carefully shied away from NATO...
World. War II: When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Tito took to the hills. Stalin, still chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich...
...Payment Plan. The Ford offer contained no G.A.W. Nevertheless, it was what Bugas called "as challenging and comprehensive a single package offer as ever made in our industry." Estimated cost: $150 million yearly (37? more an hour for the 138,000 workers), or $750 million for the five-year pact that Bugas wanted It provided for direct raises of 5? to 10? hourly for some skilled workers, an increase in pensions from $161 to $188 (including social security) for 40-year employees, a seventh holiday, an increase in vacations, from two weeks to 2½ weeks for workers with...
Free Trade Is the Issue IN 1947, the U.S. and 23 other free nations banded together in a trade pact called GATT. To many a plain citizen, GATT is nothing but a baffling set of initials. Actually, its meaning is simple. It stands for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and it is the chief instrument for expansion of world trade and the amicable settlement of trade disputes among the 34 nations-controlling 80% of world trade-that are now members...