Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Harriman made a master play. He created a contract with the Hamburg-American Line so that for 20 years his United American Line would represent the German company in the U. S. They would represent his company in Germany. German shipping had sunk to a pitiful low of 672,671 tons. Wilhelm Cuno, onetime head of the German line, was busy in Germany's muddled politics. The contract was profitable for both parties...
...problem must be purely practical and take account not only of the interests of the French bondholders, but also of the changes in the psychology of the peoples of the Soviet Union and the necessity they are under of obtaining material assistance such as will permit them to contract new obligations...
...sprang to obey. The Gigli trainer (H. J. Reilly) stepped forward with a glass of water. What would the Gigli Manhattan manager (R. E. Johnston) say to this! What would the Gigli Detroit manager (Mrs. Isobel Hurst) advise him to do? Beniamino Gigli did not know, did not care. Contract or no contract, he was going back to Manhattan...
Last week, again, another model (that made by the Remington Cash Register Co.) rights to which have been teetering in New York law courts since 1921, might have toppled into the N. C. R. collection, had the decision in contract law swung otherwise...
...Frederick F. Fuller, an inventor whose brain deals weirdly and intelligently with interlocking cog wheels, made a contract with the National Cash Register Co. For his $5,000 yearly salary he was to give to the company all inventions he developed during that year and during the year thereafter. At the end of the contract year he wanted his agreement renewed. An N. C. R. employing official refused but let him continue on the payroll under an assignment of invention rights annexed to, but not executed with, the 1909 agreement. A cash consideration was not made explicit. This arrangement endured...