Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrate. I understand the average corn-hog benefit payment in Iowa is under $400. But I know, for example, about one corn-hog contract in another State where the beneficiary was paid $219,825 in two years for not raising 14,587 hogs on 445 acres...
...Again, I understand the average cotton contract throughout the South is under $1,500. But I know, for example, about one cotton contract which paid $168,000 for not planting 7,000 acres...
...Manhattan gallery of Erhard Weyhe. He was, he said, a baker by trade. His name was Emil Ganso and he had a portfolio of drawings to show. Dealer Weyhe did not think the pictures were good enough for an immediate exhibition. Nevertheless he signed Baker Ganso to a long contract, gave him a small weekly allowance on which to live while he went on painting. It was a shrewd investment. Proudly last week Dealer Weyhe gave his protégé an exhibition, and there was not a critic to deny that Baker Ganso is now an important...
...Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
...songwriters was chosen with more discretion than when the first gold rushers went West. Each studio has proven experts on its staff, men who really earn salaries running as high as $1,500 per week. RKO not only lured Berlin away from Broadway but it also has a special contract with Jerome Kern (Roberta, I Dream Too Much), pays so well for his curving melodies that he has already recovered the fortune he lost in Depression. Despite their rich earnings, Berlin and Kern have remained unaffected by Hollywood's glitter. Kern still refuses to buy a new hat, begs...