Word: truce
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Chinese plenipotentiaries sent by Generalissimo Chiang to make peace or at least a truce with Japan arrived by special train at Tangku to find neither motor cars nor any other conveyance at the station...
...week's end word went out through the hills that the unions had accepted Arbiter Lee's proposal of a truce, and Walker County's striking scholars began to file reluctantly back to class...
...other leading figures in the Republican set-up of much sounder calibre. Frank Knox, a bombastic publisher and bitter foe of William Randolph Hearst, has called a truce in the Chicago newspaper war for the duration of the campaign, bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will...
...office, in part from the re-entry of Robert Bosch into the U. S. market under his own name after the War. Legal question was who had the rights to the name Bosch, the U. S. company, by now completely independent, or Robert Bosch himself. In 1930 a truce was called under the terms of which the U. S. company took over the German Bosch subsidiary set up in the U. S. after the War, agreed to market German Bosch products, got the benefit of German Bosch research...
...honor of this truce the U. S. company was appropriately renamed United American Bosch Corp. Deep in the automobile equipment business. United American makes horns, starters, generators, windshield wipers, ignition systems for Henry Ford. Other lines include radios, Diesel engine accessories, gas appliances. Magnetos are still Bosch's most profitable line. Every winner of the Indianapolis Sweepstakes for the past eleven years has had Bosch ignition. United's best year was 1928 when it took in $13,400,000, kept $1,000,000 profit. Deficits were the rule during the depth of Depression, though by last year...