Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began when the Minneapolis musicians' local opened negotiations for a new contract by insisting that KSTP hire a minimum of eight staff musicians, three record turners. The dispute went to the War Labor Board. While awaiting a decision, the station got a restraining order to forestall a strike threat. Petrillo met that by ordering a strike, which worked. The Minneapolis court issued a warrant for Petrillo's arrest, which did not work: he stayed out of Minneapolis...
Dummies and Wives. Two Cavendish members- George Rapee, 29-year-old U.S. individual world contract bridge champion, and Howard Schencken, longtime a Life Master, famed as the bridge experts' expert- are at work on a Check guidebook...
...bust" hands during an evening of play, will perk up at such a splash of face cards. Then, too, whereas bridge games often drag out as hands are passed because they are too evenly distributed, almost every Check deal gives either side a chance to bid and make a contract...
...more. A hand must be bid unless the player has no "marriage." A game ends when one team scores 1,000 points- but the team to win is the one with the most "checks." Checks are given for 1) melds (four aces count two checks); 2) making a contract (a bid of 200 points, two checks); 3) defeating the opponent's contract (double the checks the declarers would have won) ; 4) reaching 1,000 points first (15 checks...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...