Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ford plantations are on the Tapajoz River, tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
...policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects as the $25,000,000 contract just let to the International General Electric Company of New York (TIME, Oct. 29) for electrification in the Soviet Union...
...Creek are names written imperishably in oil. Attorney General Sargent was last week obliged to add Cat Creek to the list. Cat Creek is a U. S. oil field in Montana. In 1922, Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior, gave the Lewistown Oil and Refining Co. a contract to buy the Government's Cat Creek royalty oil. As in the case of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's contract for Salt Creek, Wyo., oil,* Fall gave the Lewistown people an option to renew their contract after five years, although no such option had been mentioned...
...TIME erroneously referred to Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract, which was voided last fortnight, as "a contract to extract oil from U. S. property on a royalty basis" (TIME, Oct. 29). Such a contract would be an operation lease. The Salt Creek field was leased to other operators, not to Sinclair. Lessees extract oil and pay the U. S. royalties of oil or cash. Sinclair's contract was to buy royalty oil from the U. S. at certain prices, with an option to renew the contract if he found the prices profitable. The voiding of Sinclair...
...scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep people from recognizing. Now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she is directed by Victor Seastrom...