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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Year Contract...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITESIDE VIEWS CREW SITUATION ON ARRIVAL HERE | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...certainty that he will be given full charge of the University shell later in the season, Whiteside said he would devote a considerable part of his time to the Freshman eights, since it is on them that he will have to rely for his material in later years. His contract with Harvard binds him for three years to a position on the Crimson staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITESIDE VIEWS CREW SITUATION ON ARRIVAL HERE | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Gas Whoopee | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Because the cost of air mail service exceeded the postage revenue by some $7,000,000 last year, thus increasing the department's deficit Postmaster General Brown has called a conference of air mail operators to "readjust" contract rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Postal Report | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Premier v. Pulpster | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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