Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas skipped a concert in Dallas, Tex., rather than sacrifice his fee, hot arguments arose all over the U. S. concerning an artist's unwritten obligations (TIME, Jan. 22). Texans called Thomas a poor sport, sympathized with Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald who had been unable to meet her contract. After the Thomas episode Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Contralto Sigrid Onegin refused to go to Dallas...
Because Postmaster General Farley decreed that no airline holding a mail contract may have a manufacturing affiliate, United Aircraft & Transport Corp., most potent ($30,000,000) U. S. aviation holding company, last week announced plans to split three ways. To take over the assets & liabilities of its various operating and manufacturing subsidiaries three new, independent corporations will be formed -one transport company, one eastern equipment company, one western equipment company. This reorganization was pledged by United when it bid for mail contracts last month. In that scramble it was the most successful competing company, recapturing...
...prizes which brought in contributions from all over the U. S. This year more than 10,000 copies were sold at 50? each. Profits go toward defraying the Bond Club's heavy Field Day expenses. In last week's issue were such stories as: VOIDS RAILROAD MAIL CONTRACTS Farley Kills Agreements on Suspicion of Deals with Franklin in 1776 . . . The sweeping cancellation, Mr. Farley told reporters, was the result of a recent Senate investigation which indicated the possibility of irregularities in the original contracts awarded by ex-Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders...
...accompanying letter requesting the signature were in German. On the assumption that it was a routine directory listing, many a banker hastily signed without troubling to translate. Not until he began to receive dunning letters in plain English did the banker realize that he had signed a contract for as much as $500 of advertising in an obscure German directory. The contract called for only a one-line listing free...
...Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead's." He recalled that Edwina Booth had "a temper like a spanked cat." She got the job and a contract for $100 per week. Options increased this to $150 a week at the end of a 20-month contract...