Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C. the Navy Department announced that twelve Martin patrol seaplanes would also take oil this month for a 7,700-mi. flight up the coast from San Diego, Calif, to Dutch Harbor. Alaska, and return. Simultaneously the War Department awarded proud Mr. Martin a $3,195,450 contract to build for the Army Air Corps 81 more of his famed "YB" bombers-most formidable weapon yet developed for aerial defense...
...opinion written by Justice Brandeis that tribunal declared unconstitutional a section of the Economy Act of 1933 which would have denied veterans the right to sue the Government under their war risk insurance policies. The Court held that Congress has no right to repudiate the Government's contracts with its onetime soldiers. If the Court should hold that Congress has no right to repudiate its contract to pay its bondholders in gold dollars of the old standard, the Government will find that it owes the public not 22,000,000,000 59? dollars on its own gold-clause bonds...
...pleasing subject of converse last week at Ankara. The stronger the two nations become, the more firmly they knit bonds of Moslem unity across the Near and Middle East, the stronger will be Shah Riza's hand the next time he feels like tearing up an oil contract. Dictator Kemal for his part was anxious to talk Persian oil for the Turkish fleet. He was said in Ankara to have turned down British firms and ordered ten new Turkish cruisers built in-of all places -Japan. "The peoples of Islam are intensely admiring of the Japanese," said an Ankara...
...obscure California schoolteacher sat down at his desk one day last week, flicked on his pince-nez and proudly put his name to a contract which soon was advertised all over the U. S. In Manhattan a slender Irish girl of 20 bubbled to reporters: "I'm thrilled to the ears." From his murky backstage office at the Metropolitan Opera, big, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza had just announced his plans for next season...
...opera one afternoon. After that there was no holding her back. She met the late Billy Guard, Mr. Gatti's kindly pressagent, who recommended a teacher. She had an audition early last winter. Mr. Gatti was noncommittal but he invited her to attend performances free. Her contract brought reports of an exceptionally clear voice, a range that extends to C above high C. Pretty Mary Moore commented: "It's not a very pretty note. It sounds like a mouse up in the attic...