Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
...trustee); with the Trans-Continental Air Transport (for whom last week he started to fly across the continent via Mexico City); and with Pan-American Airways, Inc. (whose Florida-to-Panama mail route he inaugurated last fortnight). His salaries from these civilian organizations have never been made public. His contract with Pan-American Airways forbids his advising any other companies doing a foreign transport business...
...Bingham stated that in view of the fact that Horween's contract holds for only a year and that the possibility of its extension is extremely doubtful, the athletic authorities have deemed it wise to place on the 1929 coaching staff those men who are outstanding candidates to succeed to the post of head coach. Casey's record with the Freshman squad has brought him more and more into the running for this berth, he said...
...Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover announced last week that Col. Lindbergh had violated the Pan-American Airways Co.'s contract with the U. S. by transporting 170 pounds of mail stamped by the Republic of Panama to the U. S. Only U. S. mail, pending further postal arrangements in Central America, was to have been carried. Philatelists were charged with responsibility for the violation. Col. Lindbergh was not reprimanded. In Manhattan, last week, a stamped envelope carried over the North Pole in 1926 by Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold at auction...
...statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles...