Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition of United Mine Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
Jean Tillier, affable U. S. representative of the French Line, resigned to launch an importing house with Henry S. Thompson, founder and former president of Thompson-Starrett Co. (building construction). Tillier-Thompson, Inc. got the contract for Pommery-Greno champagne and Chauvenet wines. Charles F. Bertelli, a Hearst European correspondent in Paris, rushed to Manhattan with a new wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers...
Bacardi. No one knows who will get the contract for Cuba's rum but nearly every distributor has flirted ardently with the heirs of Founder Facundo Bacardi. At least seven bidders at one time or another have sworn that the agency was theirs. But Facundo Bacardi (pronounced "back-ar-dee'') had 22 grandchildren and most of the 16 living and their various in-laws like to have a hand in running the huge Santiago distillery. As soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another...
...return to U. P.'s United Feature Syndicate, there were several reasons be sides a substantial increase in pay over the $23,000 a year that had made him one of the best paid U. S. sports writers. The terms of Pegler's contract with the Tribune forbade his writing for any other publication. He was usually confined to the subject of sport and even when, as last winter, he wrote sardonic essays on goings on in Washington, they appeared on sports pages. For the World-Telegram, Colyumist Pegler will write about anything he likes or. much more...
...Examiner's story alleged that 15 unnamed Phoenix "politicians, businessmen and others" had been paid $200,000 by unnamed contractors, before the awarding of a $2,000,000 pipeline contract. The Examiner sketched the efforts of a former U. S. District Attorney to lay before a grand jury information obtained by U. S. Internal Revenue investigators. Still no Arizona newspaper followed up the story...