Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which hardly warranted such good spirits. The President would soon have to face the ticklish problem of vetoing or not vetoing the labor bill with which Congress is now in labor. Just over the horizon John Lewis was laying for him: on June 30 the Government's coal contract expires. Foreign relations were getting no simpler. But Harry Truman put off all such serious matters but one-a request to Congress for $25,000,000 to pay for a loyalty checkup of Government employees...
Margaret Truman, whose singing teacher said her voice was "much, much better" than when she made her radio debut eight weeks ago, signed a contract to make her "in person" debut at Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque next week. It would be the start of a tour, with more concerts in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma...
...decide the wage dispute between brokers A. M. Kidder & Co. and the A.F.L. United Financial Employees' Union, which had moved to strike the Exchange unless Kidder came to terms. The union also agreed to leave the Exchange out of future fights with members for the duration of the contract...
...Communist and he works diligently at being a Communist. During last winter's elections, he sold the Communist Tribuna Popular in Rio's streets. It did not raise his stock with conservative President Eu rico Gaspar Dutra. Last week, Dutra was reported to have canceled a contract recently awarded to Niemeyer for a great aeronautical center near Sao Paulo-an air city with hangars, workshops, hospital, stadia, schools and apartments...
...that "W.W." was anxious to switch, wrote his crony Abel Green. But for the first time in 17 years Winchell was "sans contract." He had told the publisher of Hearst's New York Mirror that if The Chief "wants to keep me interested," perhaps they'd better talk things over. As matters stood, the pay from his syndicated column was chicken feed for Turkey Gobbler Winchell: on the radio, where he sells lotion, he was getting $7,500 a week, a $130,000-a-year raise over 1946. His gross income: $502,000 a year...