Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some have ideas for pleasure, some have plans for profit, some have inscrutable designs. It was so with the meeting of anthracite operators and miners, which resumed its Conference there after a week's adjournment. The miners had made eleven demands for a new wage-and-working-conditions contract to supersede the present contract expiring on August 31. Four of the miners' demands ? lesser ones ? were agreed on. The first of the remaining seven demands brought disagreement and an end to the Conference...
...joined the angelic host. Nevertheless, at the biennial convention of District 1 of the United Mine Workers, held at Wilkes-Barre, Mr. Lewis pulled wires which brought an unexpected peace. President Lewis wanted no division of his supporters while he was carrying on negotiations for a new contract with the mine operators...
...story (from F. Anstey's fantastic novel) liberates an evil genie, four thousand years old, from captivity in the brazen receptacle. The liberator, an impoverished young architect, is promptly offered his heart's desire by the relieved genie. He wishes the contract on a certain building and a life contract with a certain girl. By various and wonderful means these wishes are fulfilled...
From Cincinnati, Ohio, comes the news that the Allied American Corporation, comprising "more than 30 large American firms," concluded a contract with the Russian Soviet Government. " A yearly turnover of $2,400,000 is confidently expected...
Edith Kelley Gould, dancer, will soon appear in a Paris music hall on a twelve weeks' contract. She married Frank J. Gould when playing in In Havana in 1910, was divorced...