Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manners." A neat rear-guard action was executed by Mr. Hopkins in a parenthetic reference to the "generous peace" of the TVA-Commonwealth & Southern settlement...
...Allied Powers at San Remo incorporated the Balfour Declaration for a Jewish National Home and did not give the Arabs control of this territory. The Hebrew claim to Palestine is based not only on residence in Biblical times but on the fact that there has always been a Jewish settlement in Palestine since then. Furthermore, Jewish colonization has not and would not deprive Arabs of their land or oust them from the country. With the advent of the Zionists, the Arab standard of living has risen, and the Arab population has almost doubled due to immigration from other Arab countries...
...Either Green or Lewis must step out in the final settlement, and although no positive statement can be made as to which man is the more popular, it is doubtful if Green would risk his position before an open meeting of both the industrial and craft unions,' he concluded...
...Alfred Reeves, vice president & general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, predicted defeat for Homer Martin. Said knowing "Al" Reeves: "Manufacturers feel that Martin would be easier to deal with, but their chief concern is in a quick settlement . . . regardless of the winner...
Other portents: Settlement of the TVA fight (TIME, Feb. 13) apparently cleared the decks for utility modernization, and last week another major purchaser of producer goods-the railroads-seemed hellbent on a spending spree. Union Pacific announced a $15,000,000 expansion program-new rails, box cars, locomotives and remodeled coaches. Missouri Pacific ordered $1,500,000 worth of rails. All told, railway-equipment manufacturers said that already this year they had received orders for 375,000 tons of rails, only 25,000 tons less than 1938's total orders...