Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
Then Harry Bridges proudly rushed off-to tell C.I.O. Boss Phil Murray the good news-if shipowners got stubborn about a new contract, the maritime unions could raise hob with all shipping from Boston to Miami and from Seattle to San Diego. In fact, shipping could be halted for almost any reason Bridges and Curran chose...
Last week he got them together on the fifth floor of the General Motors building. There the bosses of G.M. and the United Auto workers stubbornly fought over the wage and contract issues which have kept the company tied up twelve weeks, at a loss of more than $100,000,000 in wages. Dewey sat in their midst, slouched in his. chair, drumming the table and nodding his grey-thatched head...
...doubt if any circumstance provokes more resentment in a plant than this sharing of the fruits of unionist work and courage by the nonmember. . . . All employes should be required to shoulder their portion of the burden of expense for administering the law of their employment, the union contract. . . . They must take the burden with the benefit...
...agreement broke the logjam that had dammed up collective bargaining in the auto industry's Big Three. Three hours later Chrysler Corp., not wanting Ford to get a competitive jump, signed up with the union too. But the Ford contract was still the big news. Beyond the pay agreement, it had another important provision: the turbulent U.A.W. had agreed to make its unruly members toe the line. What the Ford Motor Co. had won, the others would soon want and probably get. But the troubles of Ford were still far from over...