Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania had to pay 25% more than Jugoslavia paid for the same type of equipment," said General Cihofhi. "As a matter of fact the price at which the contract was let was a great deal higher than the price at which Skoda first wished to sell...
...deal for $3,300,000 worth of field guns Rumania's uniformed grafters set the price Skoda must pay to get the contract at some $800,000, which works out in native currency at 79,000,000 Rumanian...
...matter of temper, not temperament, among writers, possibly only Theodore Dreiser betters him. That prognathous jaw is forever setting itself in grim determination that someone "shall be cut from ear to ear." He gets actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash...
...Shipbuilding in the U. S. has virtually ceased because of the cloud which Senator Black's mail contract investigation has thrown around the question of subsidies. It costs about twice as much to build a ship in the U. S. as in any other land and at least 50% more to operate it under the U. S. flag...
Noel Coward once told Mrs. Ethel Harriman Russell, daughter of Washington's famed Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman: "You're no actress; you're a monologist. Why don't you write a play?" Last week, after a trial period, Mrs. Russell signed a regular contract as scenarist with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, planned to take her two children to Hollywood...