Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loans floated by the Manhattan bond house of Speyer, three by the House of Morgan. It has nothing to do with the $80,000,000 public works loan sponsored by Chase National Bank, now in complete default and under investigation to determine Tyrant Machado's right to contract...
...aviation, which would commence study at once, make recommendations to the next Congress. "It should be borne in mind that the U. S. has had no broad aviation policy.'' said the White House. Meantime the mails would be flown privately under Mr. Farley's new temporary contracts or under new one-year contracts authorized by Congress. New Face. President Roosevelt, as everyone knows, is an idealist. James Aloysius Farley is, as none can deny, a master politician. And master politicians should, by U. S. definition, always be watched closely, even during a New Deal and especially when...
...This, the "Lindbergh" line, is the shortest route from coast to coast. Connecting the United and TWA transcontinental routes in two places are Western Air Express routes, one from Cheyenne to Albuquerque and the other from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles ( ). On the former route, a new mail contract will be awarded only from Cheyenne to Pueblo. Down the Atlantic Coast, from Newark to Miami and inland from Richmond to Atlanta and Jacksonville runs the Eastern Air Transport route (X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎X∎), only one to have...
...Bridge. 54, had just signed a new 20-year-lease on Ohanapecosh Hot Springs in Mount Rainier National Park. His Ohanapecosh resort is but a sideline with Dr. Bridge. His main business is the health of some 10,000 Washington lumbermen and miners who are under his care by contract. In that business he has become an extraordinary figure, a medical tycoon. Industrial "contract practice" is a form of health insurance which arose in isolated lumber camps and mining towns and is confined largely to lumber, mining and railroad industries. The contracting employer deducts a set sum* from each employe...
...mystery story in the U. S. last week was the airmail situation. If anybody had an inkling of what would happen, he kept his peace. With some 40 conflicting bills in Congress. Postmaster General Farley intimated he would drop his temporary contract plan if permanent legislation is passed before April 20, when bids for temporary contracts are to be opened...