Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Billy Southworth, manager of the Boston Braves, signed the biggest contract in baseball, for five years...
...pleaded for a Utopian ideal. "Capital," he said in 1926, "must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...
...rifles have been used so much that they will no longer shoot straight. . . . They have excellent American artillery but are so short of ammunition that they cannot fire a single practice shot. Their trucks are for the most part broken down and, as we did not carry out our contract to deliver spare parts, they cannot repair them. They have not a single airplane even for reconnaissance since we did not carry out our promise to put through the Eight and One Third Air Group program. By persuading the Chinese Government to adopt American equipment and then refusing ammunition...
...Constellation senior captains). American termed the scale "the highest in the history of international commercial transport flying." David L. Behncke, the hard-bargaining president of the A.L.P.A., said the strike was caused by a last-minute demand of the airline. A.O.A. would agree to sign the contract, said Behncke, only if the union waived pilot grievances...
...planes it could no longer afford (Lockheed lost $4.9 million in the first half of 1947). Glenn L. Martin Co. faced big losses on its new two-engined transport, the 3-0-3, after United Air Lines (which had ordered 50 of the 84 ordered) canceled its $16 million contract. Even Douglas, now busy with its DC-6, felt shaky. Douglas' comptroller, Ralph V. Hunt, told the commission of the industry's "losses of record proportions, mounting costs, and a steady shrinking of working capital resources . . . makeshift devices ... to stave off insolvency or bankruptcy...