Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Hazard Browning's sons were not sorry when the Civil War came. They wangled a huge contract for soldiers' uniforms out of the Federal Government. After Appomattox they might have gone bankrupt had not a man named Henry W. King joined the firm. War had ruined their southern business, so Henry W. King opened a store in Chicago. It made so much money that the Brownings were glad to add his name to their corporate title, open other stores in the West. Browning, King had a chain of haberdasheries while the late James Butler, founder...
When he boards the Twentieth Century Limited for New York with his tippling press agent (Roscoe Karns) and his fretful business manager (Walter Connolly), Lily Garland turns up in the next compartment. Their entire trip is consumed in efforts to get her signature on a contract. The appearance in his car of two guttural-voiced "beards" whirls Jaffe into an inspiration. He will produce the Passion Play of which they are members, adding dervishes, camels, elephants, an ibis and Lily Garland as Magdalen. Jaffe finds a willing backer in a religious fanatic (Etienne Girardot) who has delusions of wealth...
First to renew operations was United Air Lines, which took over the mail this week on its old Northern Transcontinental and Pacific Coast routes. Ready to fly the Central Transcontinental mail was Transcontinental & Western Air, which had gotten back its contract by bidding at an almost suicidal rate. Likewise ready was Eastern Air Lines, which was awarded the Newark-Miami and Newark-New Orleans contracts...
...Robbins deliberately joined Kohler after cancellation to make a test case. Because Kohler never held a contract, but operated under a subcontract which became effective only two days before Mr. Farley took office, its past record is "clean." Mr. Robbins will resign to save Kohler's face, give it a chance to bid again. But to save the industry's face he is far from done with fighting Mr. Farley...
Conrad, who has a contract with the National Broadcasting Company and sings in the Lucky Strike hour, will not bring his orchestra, but he will be on hand to croon with the other bands at the dance and will supply other special entertainment...