Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state administration resulted in the election of Republican Old Guardsman Chapman Revercomb to the U.S. Senate and of Republican Cecil Underwood, a party comer at 34, as governor (Democratic House Incumbent M. G. Burnside lost to Republican Will Neal partly because the Democratic administration messed up a garbage-hauling contract). In the Great Plains, farm unrest caused the defeat of Republican House incumbents in South Dakota and Montana...
...basic is the Seamaster to Navy planning that soon after the crash of the first model it awarded the Martin Co. a $102 million contract to build 24 more. Last week the Navy's initial reaction to the second crash was to go ahead with the order unless the survivors testify there is something radically wrong with the design. At week's end Navy and Martin engineers were still picking up pieces and trying to find out what had gone wrong...
...Boom Backstop. Within a few years, Venezuela will be using part of its ore to make steel at home. An Italian combine is under contract with the Venezuelan government to build a $200 million, 421,500-ton-a-year steel mill near the mouth of the Caroni. Last week, a few miles up the Caroni from the mill-to-be, the workmen, trucks and power shovels of a French construction firm were clearing a site for a government-owned hydroelectric plant that will provide 143,000 kw. for steelmaking, plus another 157,000 for the region's future industrial...
...state legislature for the same paper when he was a state representative. He carried his habit of writing letters-to-the-editor right into the White, House. For about a year before his inauguration he secretly owned a newspaper, the German-language Illinois Staats-Anzeiger at Springfield. The contract Lincoln drew up to buy the paper left it in the hands of Editor Theodore Canisius but entitled Lincoln to take over its type and press any time the paper failed to espouse the Republican line...
...carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across the country were not contract-bound to carry the programs...