Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been ringing notoriously around Washington in connection with the sale of Army goods. Congressional committees have investigated, and grand juries have probed. Nine months ago Colonel Alexander Elliot Williams, onetime Assistant to the Quartermaster General, was cashiered for accepting a "loan" from a salesman on a large automobile contract (TIME, June 3). Two months ago Colonel Williams and the Silvermans were indicted for conspiracy to defraud the Government in connection with the same contract...
...friend, Colonel McMullen, was tried on four counts, ranging from bribery to acceptance of railroad tickets "wrongfully, dishonorably and to the discredit of the military service." The whole trouble arose over some 700,000 woolen union suits which Silverman bought from the Government for 14½? apiece, contracting to resell them abroad. Later he got his contract changed so he could resell them...
...music and lyrics of all seven tunes used in Follow the Fleet. The more serious numbers, Here Am I, But Where Are You, Get Thee Behind Me, Satan, have a nostalgic catch that is characteristically Berlinish. They are sung by Harriet Hilliard whose general proficiency got her a starring contract when RKO officials saw Follow the Fleet previewed...
...found little trouble in getting its hands on Butterfield's Overland Mail line in 1861 or on its successor, the Pony Express. But in 1869 it was caught napping while the first transcontinental railroad pushed through. When Wells Fargo put in a bid for the rail express contract, it found that an upstart named Pacific Union Express already had it. Simultaneously, it discovered the same concern had beaten down Wells Fargo stock from $100 to $13, then bought in, acquired control. In 1872, following a vast shuffle of officers, Lloyd Tevis of San Francisco became president of Wells Fargo...
...easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good. At the end of his contract...