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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forfeiture of leases on nitrate plants and water power for failure to live up to contract...
...business, you are, though you know it not all of you business women. When you took a taxi to come here, you automatically made a contract with the taxi company, or if in your own car, your contract for your chauffeur's wages was already made The wages of your servants are an index of wage scales. You leave one shop to go to another because you think they have not treated you fairly; they have not delivered the right quality of stuff, or have quoted different prices to different customers. We are, you see, all of us closely tied...
Munitions. Under contract No. 2,010 the Navy Department ordered some 3-inch projectiles from the Edward Valve and Manufacturing Co., Chicago, and partially cancelled this order when the Armistice was signed. The munitions makers claimed $2,259,783.27. Their attorney succeeded in getting $574,291.42, said attorney being the Hon. James Hamilton Lewis, onetime Senator (Democrat...
...blood of those who have recovered from chicken pox, if injected into susceptible children, seems to prevent their catching the disease. Nine infants, who had been exposed to the disease, were given injections of the serum from one to six days after exposure. Eight of them did not contract the disease...
Richard Strauss, famed composer, will erect a villa in Vienna. He has just been given a site in one of the public parks and a contract making him Director of the Vienna State Opera. He will occupy the villa at least ten years, the time covered by the contract...