Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Campbell suggestions: 1) require "good milling wheat" for all future contract deliveries; 2) eliminate "on track" deliveries and "bids and offers" * in the Chicago market; 3) prohibit Minneapolis trading in four grades of wheat higher in value than the highest grade recognized by the Department of Agriculture; 4) compel short sellers to deliver the same quality of grain as the farmer delivers; 5) declare a six-month debt moratorium for wheat farmers; 6) let the Farm Board pledge no more wheat sales. Declared Mr. Campbell hopefully: "By use of the present laws and my suggestions the price of wheat...
...immigra- tion to conserve U. S. jobs for U. S. residents. Consuls were instructed to refuse passport visas to aliens who on arrival were likely to become public charges. If a would-be immigrant boasted of work awaiting him in the U. S., he was barred under the contract labor provision of the Immigration code. As a result of the President's orders, the Department of Labor last week announced that immigration for fiscal 1931 had dwindled to a trickle below the 100.000 mark for the first time since...
...advice of bankers Hayden Stone Co. Then he mapped a series of monthly experimental flights of which Cramer's is the first. The implication was that if and when a two-day, two-night service is proved practicable, Thompson Aeronautical Corp. will be in line for a mail contract. (Estimated payload needed 18,000 letters at 50? each...
...present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract for a fight between Leonard and Walker, hoped to utilize...
...operactress in David Belasco's last production, Tonight or Never and married Melvyn Douglas, her leading man (TIME, April 12). On the evening her play closed she met Director Golterman, expressed a wish to make her U. S. début in his company. In 15 min. a contract was drawn up and she announced: "I am happy to make my American début in Ohio because my grandmother and her people came from the Buckeye State...