Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract carried a minimum guarantee of $1,750 a week; every important recording company in the country had put in a bid. "Pops" Whiteman had signed them for a 13-week spot on the ABC network beginning this week, intends to announce each program himself. Says he: "For four or five years we've had nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have...
WASHINGTON, October 25--The Justice Department started an intensive scrutiny today of the government's coal contract which John L. Lewis says will be void next Friday unless Interior Secretary Krug starts talking pay raises...
Wage increases, said he, would mean price increases. But if prices go up any further, markets for many items will contract. Said Wilson: "This is the vicious path to depression...
...such delays are costly. For example, Betty Grable may have been signed to a $3,000 a week contract based on her studio's calculation that it could star her in four pictures a year; since each picture now takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...
...engineers or humanists or economists or doctors. . . . What we can do for you is of no lasting importance if we have not taught you that citizenship comes first today in our crowded world. . . . No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is to be noble...