Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counteract Allied- propaganda in the U. S. Of late he has been writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ Mr. Carl Byoir and Mr. Carl Dickey? It was specifically understood that the work involved...
...Cuba should not contract any debts which she could not service out of her ordinary revenues...
...published statistics of ingot production. The demand index, which anticipates the trend of actual consumption up to three months, is calculated on figures from steel's customers-automobiles, railroads, building, oil. Gross railroad income furnishes a clue to probable purchases of rails and equipment. Building permits and contract awards hint at that industry's future steel buying. If the spread between the supply and demand indices is growing unfavorable, inventories must be piling up in some one's warehouses...
...misapplying some $2,000,000 of his defunct Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. In Chicago the lawyers of wiry, lean-lipped Arthur William Cutten were doing their utmost before a Federal referee to keep their client from being barred from the Chicago grain pit and all other U. S. contract markets...
...young man was met by a rather forceful fellow at the gate of Memorial Hall after registering in September. After much talking the luckless first year man agreed to sign a contract to have forty pieces pressed during the year. Not for a while did he realize his mistake. Then he discovered that having only one suit to his name, he would be unable to sent it out. He didn't dare try out his pink pajamas on Professor Merriman, having heard of the latter's strict ideas about comportment...