Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford and Edsel called on the President with reference to Muscle Shoals. If Mr. Ford should make a contract with the Government for this fertilizer plant, it would eliminate him as a Presidential aspirant...
...evening of Aug. 31 anthracite mining adjourned sine die. The adjournment was complete. About 155,000 miners left the mines?not technically "striking," but " suspending operations "because a new wage contract had not been executed. In the hurried days immediately before, the function of peacemaker between miners and operators?given up as hopeless by the Coal Commision?descended upon Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He had desired it so. But he did not succeed in preventing the strike...
...miners' demands: 1) the check-off (for collection of union dues, fines and assessments by the operators, for the unions, from the men's pay) ; 2) an increase of $2.00 a day for miners paid on a time basis, and of 20% for miners paid on the contract (or quantity) basis. Governor Pinchot denied the miners' demand for the checkoff, and compromised the pay demand. Contract miners would get half the increase demanded; men working by the day (now making from $4.20 to $5.60) would receive from 42¢ to 56¢?or only about one-quarter of what they asked...
Coincident with the news that Baby Peggy (half past three) has "signed" a contract that will net Mr. and Mrs. Peggy $5,000,000 during three years, come certain advices* regarding the maltreatment of the children of the studios. It appears that small armies of indigent mothers and indolent fathers stand ready daily to sacrifice their offspring on the altar of Hollywood...
Since these were the contingent points on which the author had been skeptical they promptly agreed. Miss Adams secured the motion picture rights to Kim for eight years. Despite this extended contract she expects to start work before next Spring...