Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still trying to get around Mr. McCarl, General Johnson advised Secretary Wallace that Ford Motor Co., "save in respect of certain technical particulars which are considered immaterial," had satisfactorily complied with NRA requirements, but that Dealer Sabine ought not to get the contract. He was, reasoned General Johnson, "probably" violating the automobile retail code by bidding lower than the list price for Ford trucks...
Comptroller McCarl does not like to be told that the Government is paying too little for anything. He retorted that if the dealer was "probably" breaking code law, that was a matter for the courts to decide, that the job of Secretary Wallace was to give the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The CCC needed some of its trucks in a hurry. A contract for 818 trucks was therefore grudgingly awarded to Ford Dealer Sabine, all to be delivered within six days at various points from Edgewater, N. J. to Kansas City...
...must to all jobholders-brought even his job to an end. Johnson's late wife was a sister of "Judge" Israel Durham who 30 years ago was a power in Philadelphia politics. In 1903 Durham got the city council to vote his brother-in-law a perpetual contract as architect at a fee of 6% of the total cost of constructing and equipping all buildings built for the city Health Department...
...Princeton graduate, towed a long red advertisement, "Send Your Son to Harvard," over the Bowl before the game. Mr. Cooper, chased to the ground at the airport, refused point-blank to say who was paying for the advertisement. He was working for Roosevelt Field, he said, and the contract for the job was nobody's business. "It's bad enough for a Princeton man to have to do it," he added. "Heaven only knows what they will do to me when I get back...
...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...