Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
After becoming official Harvard students through the process of signing their names approximately 100 times, the new Freshmen will not be plagued, as have preceding classes, by the hordes of contract servers from laundry and cleaning establishments and student organizations...
...Cincinnati station WLW, which at 50,000 watts is one of the nation's most important; 3) a contract to buy New York station WINS. (The entire deal is subject to approval by the Federal Communications Commission...
When Arthur Edwin Stockton, of Emmett, Idaho (pop. 3,200), enlisted in the Army, in 1942, he entrusted his Ford agency to two friends. They were both drafted. By the time he was released on a medical discharge, Stockton found that Ford had canceled his contract and given his agency to someone else...
...evidence in this case is very clear that the contract was canceled for the sole reason that the plaintiff was in service...