Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loud and fast. . . and on the beat." About 150 other girls were trying out, too ("An acre of mink and silver fox, honey, and me in a little old suit"). But Lucky Strike's late George Washington Hill liked Fredda's hep style, and she got the contract. For the next two years she was the unsung singer for the Lucky Strike Hit Parade...
...Revoke the March 31 deadline on his contract with the Government...
...persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began to refer to their telephone chats as "blitz calls...
...plant at once, but he hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...
...protection of the Wagner Act (in effect repealing the Supreme Court decision of March 10 which put them under it). The only other club against management-a strike-had proved a slender reed. Furthermore, the union's greatest source of power, prestige and funds had been its big contract...