Word: contract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Herald Tribune story saying that James V. Hunt, a wartime Lieutenant Columbia, had received $1000 as down payment for work he said he would do to get a client a government contract means that Hunt will be the able to see his son graduates from Harvard tomorrow...
Actually, what worried big John L. was the depressing spectacle of 70 million tons of coal above ground (enough to last the U.S. at least 55 days) in the midst of contract negotiations. This cozy backlog was nothing to inspire sweet reasonableness in the operators. In three weeks of negotiations, the hard-jawed Southern Coal Producers Association had insisted on unthinkable changes in the contract. The operators wanted the miners to give up their paid half-hour lunch periods. They even wanted to kill the clause which requires the miners to work only when "willing and able."* To the operators...
...give them shorter hours (perhaps a 30-hour week) without cutting pay. Otherwise, another long coal strike seemed certain. For shortly after his newly proclaimed "period of inaction" ends, the miners will take their annual ten-day vacation. And by the time the vacation is over, the miners' contract will have run out. If there is no agreement by then John Lewis has an old standby handy: "No contract, no work...
...Xochimilquenses began to hit water, the municipality gave them some help. It hustled well-digging machinery and pumps out to the canals. It signed a contract with a nearby factory to use its pump during off-hours. As a result, in a single night 396,262 gallons of water were pumped into the canals. The boatmen, on their own, had accounted for plenty more...
...other line of Williams research also deals with insects, and the unexplained mystery of how they fly. Men can contract their muscles only 10 times a second, but some insect wings hit frequencies of 1000. Biologists have never understood how they do it and in his attempts to find out Williams has built such weird instruments as a machine that measures the horsepower output of a fruitfly...