Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco Bay area (TIME, Sept. 5), was the device used by the Association of San Francisco Distributors to show what an employers' union could do against a labor union. The hot car forced the employers' issue: their demand that the union should give them a master contract covering all warehouses until 1940. To I. L. W. U. the master contract looked like a device to write off concessions previously won from individual employers and strait-jacket the union...
Meantime, a rival A. F. of L. union had won a local toe hold by signing a contract with a smaller association of warehouse operators. No. 1 provision: no strikes, no lockouts for five years...
Morris R. Cohen, professor in the College of the City of New York, will give a lecture tomorrow afternoon on "Fictions in the Law of Contract" in Langdell Hall, at 5 o'clock...
Shrink-Proof Wool A wool fibre consists of: 1) the cortex (scaly outer layer), 2) elasticum (inner layer), 3) core. If soaked in water, the elasticum and core contract, pulling the cortex with them and shrinking the wool 10 to 30%. For years chemists have searched for a way to "lubricate" these inner parts to prevent shrinking, but most of them failed.* The treatments either made the wool scratchy, bleached its dyes or damaged its durability. Last week the U. S. granted two patents on processes which make wool shrink-proof but promise not to harm...
When Bob and his Canine Prodigy are the stars of a successful traveling circus, he makes a bad mistake, accepts a contract for the Big Show which includes his doubling in a high-wire leap and Ann joining a snake act. Thereafter the story centres on the Big Show at Madison Square Garden, spotlights the thinly disguised big-time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high...