Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union's wage-policy committee meets here at 10 a.m. EDT Monday to consider the reported offer which would give the strikers an 8-cent-an-hour hike in pension and welfare benefits in the first year of a two-year contract...
...line with the first objective, that of improving the quality of education, Newton High School established with the GSE during 1958-59 a project known as "contract correcting." This program will determine whether or not it is feasible to have qualified persons, such as housewives with college degrees, work from eight to ten hours a week correcting English themes...
Evaluation of this system follows the same lines that almost all of the projects do. Detailed questionnaires will elicit opinion and comment from teachers, readers, and students. Writing tests will be used to show the progress of students who are enabled by the contract correcting system to have more training in English...
...Frantic One's abusive comments and second-guessing, the Flash quit the team as soon as the Indians were officially eliminated from the pennant race. A day later, Lane assembled reporters to introduce his new field boss--a fellow named Gordon, replete with raise and two-year contract...
Nevertheless, both A.M.F. and Brunswick are going abroad, where automated tenpin bowling is almost unknown. Brunswick has built commercial installations in Lebanon and Italy and signed a contract to convert J. Arthur Rank-owned movie houses into bowling alleys in England. A.M.F. this month automated the second bowling alley in Stockholm, will soon build similar facilities in Denmark, Belgium and Australia. With the expensive promotions and plush environments, A.M.F. and Brunswick hope to build bowling overseas up to the scale...