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Word: contracting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signing of a bill now on the President's desk, Bonney announced that the training unit would operate under two separate plans next fall: the pre-war policy, ending in a commission in the Naval Reserve; and, under the new bill, a system whereby the trainee would sign a contract with the Navy, agreeing to serve for two years in the regular Navy after graduation and to remain in the Naval Reserve enough additional time to complete six years of duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bonney New NROTC Commander As Keppler Retires From Position | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...Aircraft Co., which made the war's biggest planes, also suffered one of its biggest ironies. Although its B-29s and B-17s carried the bulk of U.S. bombardment power, Boeing was hit harder by victory than any other plane maker. Within weeks after war's end, contract cancellations forced it to close its Seattle plant. Hope seemed to be grounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Airborne | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...last week Boeing had turned its big-plane liability into its No. 1 asset was in the air again. Lawyer-President William M. Allen announced that United Air Lines, Inc. had signed an $11,000,000 contract to buy seven of Boeing's huge new Stratocruisers, commercial development of the B-29 (TIME, Jan. 22, 1945). It brought the number of Stratocruisers now on order to 49, swelled Boeing's backlog to a comfortable $140 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Airborne | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...organization, consisting of Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, M.I.T., Pensylvania, Princeton, Rochester, and Yale, will operate, under a contract with the government, the new Northeast National Laboratory project for research in nuclear physics and investigation on the applications of atomic energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vice-President of University Named Head of Committee For Study of Atomic Energy | 8/6/1946 | See Source »

...Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Bloque Blocked | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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