Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracts brought good news to British ironmasters, not so good news to U. S. ironmasters. Favored by the pending British-Argentine trade treaty, British companies will deliver two-thirds of the 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron, U. S. companies the rest. The last such contract, in 1924, went entirely to U. S. companies...
...whistled on thousands of U. S. street corners this autumn, one of the leading catch tunes of 1933. And the two little pigs have had their song published, the first of the Disney creatures to accomplish so much. They have established a market for future Disney tunes with a contract, signed last week, whereby Irving Berlin's publishing house will have the sheet-music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies...
...Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens over Hell Gate. The Public Works Administration was ready to give the city $7,200,000 outright for this triborough span, lend it $37,000,000 more. The Triborough Bridge Authority had yet to sign its Federal loan agreement, arrange for bids on the contract. Estimated employment...
...plant the cross of Jesus alongside the Blue Eagle of the NRA," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton signed a contract to appear in vaudeville on Broadway. Said she: "In debating with myself I found my flesh shrinking from the misunderstanding of motives which might be focused upon me, but when I consider what Christ would do were He here upon earth, there was no other answer than His own word: 'I come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.' It is not as an actress that I shall go before the footlights. My purpose will...
Largest item of the program is a $1,000,000 seaplane airbase on Miami's shore. Last week Fred Howland, Inc. of Miami was awarded the master contract for the terminal building. The base will provide for the simultaneous arrival of four of Pan American's huge "Clipper" flying boats, the handling of 500 to 600 passengers. It will provide customs and immigration offices, be rated a U. S. port of entry. Clearance is allowed on the marine runways and loading docks for wing spans of more than 200 ft.; a mile-long deep water channel has been...