Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Johnson & Neutrality Acts, then lend Britain money. After a brief backhand smash at people who think in traditional terms about finances, he outlined his plan: the U. S. will pay for all future British arms orders, will lease or mortgage war materials to Britain under a "gentlemen's agreement" whereby the British will repay in kind after the war. The British were now being told to go ahead, order all they need up to $3,000,000,000 worth, without worrying over their ability to pay or U. S. ability to deliver. Although legal means of carrying out this...
Whether these four men could work smoothly together, unanimous on all important points, remained to be seen. On one point they were in complete agreement. Day after their appointment they called upon the U. S. public "to recognize the full gravity of the crisis . . . pull off their coats and roll up their sleeves. . . . The contest which produced this crisis is irreconcilable in character and cannot be terminated by any methods of appeasement." With Bill Knudsen's "terrible urgency" becoming more actual every day, the Big Four's teamwork would be visible very soon...
...vast array of hereditary titles settled upon him, a bachelor, a democrat, and the last of his immediate line. His work for closer U. S.-British trade relations ended formally when he resigned from the Government over the Ottawa agreement. In the '30s, during the period of appeasement, he saw his last hope-that Adolf Hitler might still be brought into the fabric of European law & order by adjustments of the Versailles Treaty-end in the invasion of Czecho-Slovakia. And as he arrived in the U. S. as Ambassador, he saw the outbreak of the war which...
Biggest downpour was in Detroit. Signing a new agreement with United Auto Workers, Chrysler Corp. granted bonuses of $40 each to some 60,000 workmen (in lieu of vacations with pay), a 2? raise in hourly pay besides. To most observers, it looked as if smart Chrysler had made another smart move. The $40 bonus, which will give employes about $2,250,000, actually will cost Chrysler only about $855,000 net (considering both normal and excess-profits tax savings...
...Ramon Serrano Suner, Spanish Foreign Minister, sat down with British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare in Madrid and signed a commercial agreement that freed frozen Spanish credits in Britain and provided the basis for a revival of Anglo-Spanish trade. Opening transactions included the sending of 6.000 tons of manganese ore, urgently needed by the Spanish steel industry, and a cargo of jute from India. Spain contracted to send her entire export crop of bitter oranges and large quantities of sweet oranges to England, and was assured of an end to difficulties over the import of seed potatoes...