Word: cancels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constructed under any of the Maritime Commission's contracts." (A. J. himself, on the contrary, had said darkly: "Maybe we were going to build too many ships too cheaply.") And anyhow, the steel shortage being what it is, they were afraid they might soon have to cancel another 115 Liberty ships scheduled for yards not yet producing...
...agreed to pay the extra costs of taking gasoline to the East Coast by rail instead of tanker. This will enable Henderson to cancel a 2½?-a-gallon rise in East Coast prices, batten down his ceiling where it had already sprung a leak...
When Pearson & Allen asked her to cancel their contract, Cissie countered by yanking their column out of its spot opposite the editorial page, pushed it back among the want ads, chopped it up, some days dropped it altogether...
When they wrote Bingham yesterday, asking him to cancel the affair, he called Hanover, and suggested May 2 as a new date. But the athletic authorities in the hills of New Hampshire, said "No," pleading out because of exams...
Standard refused to cancel its formal contract with Condor until the State Department threatened to invoke its black list. But Berle hinted that the company may have wanted the blacklist threat as a defense against a possible breach-of-contract suit. President Parish hailed this interpretation as plain truth...