Word: truce
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...Harvard faces a food shortage as a result of the Boston area truck strike, one of the places students will be unable to go to augment dining hall fare is the Harvard Square Georgian Cafeteria, for after a six weeks' truce 40 of the Georgian's 47 employees walked out Saturday night and the management has closed up shop...
...destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
...Monopoly Committee's list of suspects-was made last fortnight by Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Last week Philip Murray had reason to be reassured, for a two-month state of undeclared war in the industry was ended, temporarily at least, by an undeclared truce...
...burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo, the U. S. followed suit. Finally the Pan-American Conference of 1934 at Montevideo took up the question, arranged a truce a year later, then began its long, drawn-out negotiations...
...Truces between the New Deal and the public utility industry have been about as frequent and as transient as European war scares. But last week came a truce which really seemed to amount to something. Columnist Arthur Krock enthused...