Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid a gale of sarcastic laughter from sportswriters, he set out to remove the game of contract bridge from the nation's drawing rooms to the nation...
...could say "One No Trump," the Frenchmen were shot up to a large chamber in Essex House which was arranged as if for bearbaiting. There, in two pits with 250 kibitzers mounted in circles behind them, the Frenchmen were told that they would begin play this week for THE CONTRACT BRIDGE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD. In an adjoining room, 800 more spectators will observe the play on an electric board. "What is this," asked Baron Robert de Nexon, team captain, "a circus?" The French nobleman who manages Pierre Wertheimer's famed racing stud is not unsophisticated...
...their frame house 100 yards away from the Dafoe Hospital, Oliva and Elzire Dionne sulked, gazed glumly at a contract, as yet unsigned, by which they would get $700 in return for permission to let professional actors impersonate them. "I figured $700 wasn't enough," said the father of the Quintuplets...
...Page, 34, of Rockefeller Institute, saluted his new responsibilities by publishing a new fact he had just discovered concerning hypertension, or high blood pressure caused by spasmodic constriction in blood vessels. In Science he stated that the brains of hypertensive individuals contain a fluid which causes blood vessels to contract. The vessels most affected are those great ones which supply blood to the stomach, intestines, spleen, pancreas, liver and kidneys. The fluid lies mainly within the all-important cavity of the brain called the betweenbrain...
...soil. This permission was withheld because European nations insisted their air companies have an equal share in the new route. This was impossible for two reasons: 1) only the U. S. had airplanes economically capable of the passage; 2) the U. S. cannot under present laws let an airmail contract to any but U. S. firms, using U. S. material, U. S. crews...