Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are many factors which qualify General Marshall for the job so there are several which severely disqualify him. First and fundamentally, he will be a military man in a civil post. As deTocqueville observed over a century ago, officers, in democratic armies "contract tastes and wants wholly distinct from those of the nation, a fact which may be thus accounted for: Among democratic nations that man who becomes an officers severs all the ties that bound him to civil life; he leaves it forever, and no interest urges him to return to it. . . . As the wants of an officer...
...with the experience that has been gained from its construction, Mark III, which will in point of design put the present machines in the museum, is taking shape in the fertile brains and on the drawing boards of Professor Aiken and his enthusiastic lieutenants. With Mark I's contract work running out and Mark III in the offing, two years should see the Laboratory free to concentrate its full effort on civilian computation projects...
...torpedo shook C.M.U. from stem to stern, although C.M.U. was not yet sunk and Harry Bridges and comrades were not yet licked. Bridges was on his way to Honolulu to negotiate a longshoremen's contract. But in the Manhattan headquarters of N.M.U., Curran's Communist pals, now his bitter, open enemies, scurried around like enraged locusts, shrilling propaganda...
...Good to Lose. The Pittsburgh Press last week said it would give Stokes his wish, but the New York World-Telegram's answer was to renew its contract for the column. And Editor John O'Rourke of the Washington Daily News wrote Stokes that his column was too "valuable to the News" to be dropped...
...sold as packages (that is, complete with scripts and even Selznick stars) to other companies, with profit to David, none to U.A. David said that these were his babies and he could do as he liked with them. Besides, the three pictures he had already turned in on his contract (Since You Went Away, I'll be Seeing You, Spellbound) had all grossed more than $5 million each. In fact, said David, he had helped save U.A. from bankruptcy...