Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England in 1941, went to court with charges that Hollywood Producer David Selznick was attempting to prevent her appearing in a London stage play with her cinematinee-idol husband, Laurence Olivier. Selznick likened Miss Leigh to an "exotic plant" which must be wisely exposed, said that her seven-year contract with him still had a year to run, felt that he had already been overgenerous, as her 1941 trip was "a three-months' leave" which had now stretched to more than three years. Cinemactress Leigh, who admitted that she would be subject to Britain's labor draft...
These arresting facts stood out bright as airport beacons last week as 13 companies petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a share of the postwar Pacific air routes. The principal contenders for future Pacific routes were already old hands at flying the ocean, under contract to A.T.C...
...chance came shortly after World War I. Sears, Roebuck, which had been printing its own catalogue, got fed up with the job. John Cuneo landed the fat contract. Overnight, it turned his bookbindery into a big business. Cuneo went right on expanding, although he no longer does the bulk of Sears printing...
...Remedy? Said KSTP President Stanley E. Hubbard last week: "Petrillo has demonstrated to the world that he has more power [than the War Labor Board]. . . . We therefore have capitulated . . . to his demands that we employ men under contract regardless of whether or not we need them. . . . The remedy to this situation lies in the legislative branch of our government...
...half-hour grilling by the Mead Committee (formerly the Truman Committee) and he was hopping mad. Finally he stood at bay, angrily accused the investigators of trying to tear down his character, and of tapping the telephone wire of his firm (Surplus Liquidators, Inc., which held a contract to sell some $750,000 worth of Defense Plant Corp. surpluses to the public). Without pausing for breath, he also charged that the Senate's Committee was wasting millions in its investigation of Government surplus property disposal methods...