Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business until 1947, when his contract with Stein expires...
...over last week, Argentina owned the United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd., I.T. & T.'s largest operating subsidiary. And Behn had been paid his price of $95 million in U.S. money (I.T. & T.'s original investment: some $85 million). I.T. & T. also got a ten-year contract to furnish technical advisors, and exclusive rights to supply its former subsidiary with equipment...
...policy: 1) press the fight for price control for another 30 days, 2) if prices continued to rise, reopen wage clauses on a national scale. Then Walter Reuther, obviously hoping that the Decontrol Board was listening, threatened to reopen the Chrysler contract...
...Expediter Wyatt had done little that seemed likely to relieve their supply worries, said the builders, he had done nothing at all to relieve their worries over rising costs. To protect themselves against contract squeezes (as well as to make more profit), builders almost unanimously clamored for a lifting of the $10,000 lid on veterans' housing. (Some had even gone on what amounted to a sit-down strike for a free market; new-building "starts" began to fall off in June...
...Metals Reserve Company was ready to sign a contract, calling for delivery of 17,600 long tons of tin concentrates, with second-string Tin King Mauricio Hochschild and all the other Bolivian tin men except the biggest operator of them all, Simon Patino, who is solidly tied up with Britain...