Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel Bond rally, Novelist Leon Uris (Exodus, Battle Cry), 35, recalled his record at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, said he had flunked English three times and was about to register flunk No. 4 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. To Uris, who recently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for four sight-unseen novels, the matter was merely academic, but "it's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing...
...because of matters legal, not medical, it was not even certain that the baby would ever be born. Reason: Moe Leff, longtime collaborator on the strip and its producer since the death in 1955 of Joe's creator, Ham Fisher, had sued to end his 20-year contract with Fisher's estate, quit drawing the daily strips distributed by the McNaught Syndicate to some 650 U.S. and foreign newspapers...
MISSILE-INCENTIVE contract at cost of $29,209,851 was won by General Electric Co. to build Thor IRBM nose cones. First Air Force incentive contract in missile field will mean bigger profits if G.E. effects production savings and exceptional product performance...
Other unions did not wait for steel to set a wage pattern, pushed in for the best deals they could make.¶ One hour before the expiration of a three-year contract, the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meatcutters got Armour's signature to a two-year contract raising wages 8½?an hour the first year, another 6½?the second. Fringe benefits brought the package to 22? over the life of the contract, ranged from three-week vacations after twelve years (v. 15) to establishment of a $500,000 fund through company contributions to help retrain...
...press junket to Ciudad Trujillo last May, was confronted with the deal by a Trujillo aide. Shocked and angry, Mutual went to the Justice Department. Trujillo's lawyer also went to the Justice Department after he failed to get the money back from Guterma, turned over the alleged contract with Trujillo...