Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington it was announced that William H. Plummer & Co., Manhattan's biggest glass and china store, had been awarded a contract for ten dozen service plates, ten dozen dinner plates, ten dozen bread & butter plates, ten dozen coffee cups & saucers, ten dozen teacups & saucers, ten dozen after-dinner coffee cups &saucers, ten dozen bouillon cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with...
Despite his income having been upped [TIME, Nov. 12], Frank Kent, familiarly known among his intimates al Ihe Maryland Club as "Old Doctor Kent 40 years experience and never lost a case." still continues his ½? per point limit in contract bridge, in which he has established a well-deserved reputation as a bidder-upper. Paradoxical as it may seem, the New Deal, of which he is the severest critic, is pouring more 59? dollars into his bank account than did the boom years...
Next stop was Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...
...Court should hold against the Government the whole economic structure of the country would be badly rent. Many a corporation would go bankrupt and the U. S. Government would find its debt increased by two-thirds. But the likelihood of the Supreme Court denying the validity of the gold contract law is considered relatively remote inasmuch as the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to "coin money, regulate the value thereof...
...made friends here, enemies there. It got the Associated Press to adopt a five-day week, failed to win general pay rises from the Cleveland News. It won concessions on hours, wages and job-security from Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, failed to get a written contract. It won a pipsqueak boycott against the Jamaica Long Island Press, suffered sharp internal pains because some Guild elements objected to the "labor union tendencies" of President Heywood Broun...