Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement is filled with reckless assertions. It may be that Mr. Ford ... is not himself possessed of the full facts of the situation." He then explained: 1) that the Gorgas plant cost less than $5,000,000 of the hundred millions expended at Muscle Shoals; 2) that under the contract made by the Wilson Administration with the Alabama Power Co. the Government had the choice of selling the Gorgas plant for $3,500,000 or junking it, which would have yielded about $1,000,000. He continued: " I have never opposed Mr. Ford's securing the use of this waterpower...
...Alabama Power Co. finally demanded that the plant be sold to it or taken off. Secretary of War Weeks (in charge of Muscle Shoals) notified Mr. Ford and Mr. Ford kept silence. On Sept. 24 the Gorgas plant was sold to the Power Co. under the terms of the contract...
Eleanora Duse, " Bernhardt of Italy ": " As I sailed from France to fulfill a contract with Producer Morris Gest in New York, I explained my trip as a pecuniary necessity. Said I: ' I am literally trembling at the thought of the publicity I am bound to receive on my arrival. All my life I have perhaps been the only actress with a genuine horror of seeing my name in print. I have suffered so much...
Professor Persons first described the theory of recurring business cycles, on which the Harvard Economic Service is based. Perpetual change, he showed, is an inherent feature of modern industrial enterprise. Prices rise and fall; markets expand and contract; production increases and decreases; orders accumulate beyond capacity and then seem to vanish altogether...
...that this condition is the students' fault for not driving better bargains is not very helpful. The absorbing thought of the last week of college is to get out of Cambridge just as quickly as possible; next fall seems far off, and the desire to make a reasonable moving contract is very faint. Perhaps any action of the College would border on paternalism, but considering the general confusion and excitment during the last few weeks and the necessity for prompt and untroubled concentration in the fall, such action is certainly warranted...