Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitulated to M.C.A. and was signed to a big-time radio spot. Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman are among the few name bands still struggling along without Stein's M.C.A. Band leaders who want to get out have their difficulties, too. When Benny Goodman tried to break his contract, he was offered such humiliating bookings that he would not fill them, finally disbanded his musicians for a year...
After six weeks of tedious negotiations and a scattering of strikes (19,000 miners out in 235 mines), the soft-coal miners and operators signed a new contract. On its face it was a give & take proposition. Actually it was a fair victory for the miners and their shaggy, barrel-shaped boss, John L. Lewis, who had asked for a lot and wound up by getting quite a little...
Agreement to the new contract by the National War Labor Board seemed probable at week's end; so did steps to pass on to consumers part of the added cost ($150 million a year) of the new contract to mine operators...
...first time since it started (in 1935), Eleanor Roosevelt's column, "My Day," failed to appear in 74 U.S. papers last week. Her column had only lapsed, not stopped, said United Feature's General Manager George A. Carlin. He recently renewed Mrs. Roosevelt's contract until 1950, to run regardless of whether she was still First Lady. Added Carlin: from now on, Mrs. Roosevelt can speak more freely on political matters...
Over two years ago the Marine Corps contracted with the Pennsylvania State Department of Welfare for millions of tent pegs to be made in prison workshops at Eastern. Part of this fat contract was farmed out by the Welfare Department to the four inmates at Eastern, who operate their own hobby shop...