Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curare was described in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week: Dr. Nicholas S. Ransohoff of Long Branch, N.J. says it has helped relax polio patients. (They often have severe cramps, because paralyzed muscles cause unaffected muscles near by to contract...
Ironically, the company whose planes had done more than any other to bomb Japan into submission had been hit harder, dollarwise, than any other plane company by contract cancellations. Boeing already has on hand almost enough sub-assemblies for all the B-29s the Army will take in the next three months. The company had no choice but to stay closed until it can trim its force down to the small number needed to put out the few B-29s wanted (only five or six a month by April...
...contract was both flowery and nebulous. It said that the company was "sympathetic to the enlightened and wise guidance of His Imperial Majesty . . . and his Government toward the destiny, which by history and background, Ethiopia so well deserves." In return for the concession, Sinclair promised to devote part of its Ethiopian profits-if any-to build schools, hospitals, clinics, sanitary facilities "and other public institutions for the enhancement, education, health, culture and prosperity of the people...
Last week, 25 years later and $10 million richer, Lewis Ruskin was well on his way. He wound up a deal that made him one of the top powder-&-perfume men in the U.S. The deal: a 30-year contract with the Evelyn Westall Co. of New York (White Shoulders, Menace and Gay Diversion perfumes). For the "world sales rights" (virtual ownership), Ruskin will pay Westall $600,000, promises to buy $30 million worth of goods from the company during the next 30 years. From his new eminence, he curled a lip at the big names in perfumery, said...
Something had also happened to Jahco's perfect friendship with A.F. of L.'s International Association of Machinists, with which Bill Jack had long boasted a closed-shop contract. The trouble had started when union bigwigs, who looked sourly on Jahco's stock-selling plan, warned associates against buying. Associates went right on buying anyway, rubbed it into wary union officials by assigning their voting rights to Bill Jack and Vice President Ralph Heintz as trustees. When the V-J layoffs started, the squabble broke out again, this time over veteran seniority provisions. Result: Jahco must appear...