Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From now on, said the Navy, it will abandon cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts (in which the contractor is guaranteed a profit no matter what his costs) and return to competitive bidding and fixed-price contracts (in which the cheaper a manufacturer produces a product the more profit he will make...
...next semester by Eliot House, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, master of Eliot, revealel last night. Because of the complete success of the original conference, held for the first time during the fall semester, it was decided to give another course despite staff shortages which forced other Houses to abandon tentative plan for spring courses...
LONDON--British tanks were reported only 30 miles from Tripoli today and still advancing swiftly toward the last big Axis base in Libya which Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was believed preparing to abandon without a fight...
There is one redeeming feature to the whole thing. It is nondescript Jeeter Lester, buffoonish his way across the drab stage with the abandon of a loosed chimpanzee, using all the tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy" scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns or hells...
Canada's wartime Prices and Trade Board decreed two simplifications for Canada's tables last week: 1) it rationed butter to half a pound per week per person; 2) it ordered porcelain manufacturers to abandon fripperies, especially cup handles...