Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trusteeship contract may still be written in London, but whether as "trustee" or outright owner, the U.S. is going to exercise full power over the islands it needs as strategic bases...
Then Kaiser-Frazer ran full-page ads announcing that its cars would soon be on display, although actual car production is months away. Front-page newspaper stories about Kaiser-Frazer's new labor contract brought more publicity. Plans to lease a West Coast plant leaked out. Result: Kaiser-Frazer stock shot up from 15 to 24¼. At the new high price at which the stock is now selling, the new stock issue would bring the corporation over...
...Washington and saw RFC. Having already sunk so much in the plane, RFC agreed to put up another $1,500,000 to move the plane ($60,000), build a dock ($250,000), assemble the ship and test it ($1,190,000). All Hughes had to do was sign the contract...
Hughes balked. His reason: the contract stipulated that RFC would choose the pilots for test flights, and Hughes wanted to pick his own. Reportedly, he wants to fly the plane himself. Perelle tried for three months to get Hughes to change his mind. Last week he gave...
...Brother Bing, 41, ducked reporters in Manhattan last week. The Groaner had refused to go back on the Kraft Cheese Co.'s Music Hall after his summer vacation; the company claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...