Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long-haired Bernarr Macfaddcn founded the Graphic, hired Writer Winchell on a seven-year contract as columnist, dramatic critic. Starting salary: $100 a week, all of which he earned by night...
...Metropolitan audition was the result of a word whispered into official ears by Caruso himself. Without having learned an operatic role, with but six months to study grand opera methods, she was given a contract straightaway. She made her debut (1918) opposite Caruso, in the Verdi opera called La Forza del Destino-The Power of Fate...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...
...would appreciate it very much if you can correct this error for the reason that the Department of Commerce Building is the largest of the group of buildings and the stone contract is the largest stone contract ever...
...Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine golf; and now the score is all even at the turn-Editor Long with Calvin Coolidge's autobiography appearing in Cosmopolitan; Editor Lorimer with a contract for the life story of Alfred Emanuel Smith tucked snugly away in his safe. Last week something occurred to bring forth the question: Will Editor Lorimer soon be "one up" on Editor Long? That something was this: To the White House went Editor Lorimer, there to dine with President Hoover...