Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for the first time the U.S. Government hired the services of a commercial advertising agency. The Tennessee Valley Authority made a four-month contract for the services of Young & Rubicam for a fee of $10,000. Several months ago TVA started to find customers for the power it generates at Muscle Shoals. Later it formed Electric Home & Farm Authority to finance instalment sales of electric apparatus to valley dwellers. An advertising campaign was the next step...
...Prison-labor shall not be let out by States on contract at lower "wages" per unit of output than the wages of free labor...
...Mayor of Eatonville he led a posse which captured a band of bank robbers. Dr. Bridge lined up the bandits, advised them to find some new line of work. Robbery, he said, was poor business. The American Medical Association, stanch foe of socialized medicine, does not consider contract practice unethical per se. Two years ago its Bureau of Medical Economics reviewed Dr. Bridge's activities in the A. M. A. Journal, admitted that such schemes give some patients better care than they could otherwise get. But, said the Bureau, they also lead to solicitation, underbidding, inferior service. They squeeze...
...identifying her as Eleanor Holm. Eleanor Holm used to be spoken of as a Follies girl because Florenz Ziegfeld once offered her a job she did not take. Last week she was described as returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most of the other names and faces at Chicago last week were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke...
...years is apt to experience." Last week spare, tight-lipped Speculator Cutten experienced another emotion. The Federal Government, after examining his grain transactions over a long period, cracked down and bade him show cause why he should not be barred from trading in all U. S. contract markets. No less important a New Dealer than Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, as titular head of the Grain Futures Administration, was Speculator Cutten's inquisitor. The Government's chief complaint was that Speculator Cutten had misreported or failed to report his long and short positions of 500,000 bu. or more...