Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad news apparently leaked. For when Union Oil began negotiations for a contract with the Paraguayan Government, it met stiff competition from British and U.S. companies, and from the Argentine Government. Finally, the company signed a complicated agreement. It would pay an annual rental, and would give Paraguay up to 15% of any oil it produced...
...contract surprised diplomats, who had long written off landlocked Paraguay as the slave of Argentine's peso-diplomacy. An oil-rich Paraguay, in partnership with a non-political U.S. company, might thumb her nose at her big and bossy neighbor down the Paraná River...
Leopold Stokowski, who does things in the grandiose manner, signed a three-year contract to direct the Hollywood Bowl's musical activities and conduct its summer concerts. Said starry-eyed Stokowski: "The poetic setting of the Bowl under the stars . . . the poetry of the night and the stars go together. I love to conduct . . . where so many people can enjoy music in the open air beneath the stars...
There were two hitches: 1) the Sun must wait nearly two years for Caniff, until his present contract runs out in October 1946; 2) even then, Terry and his pals (Burma, the Dragon Lady, et al.) will stay in the Colonel's stable-because the rights to Terry belong to the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. Though this arrangement is common practice in the comic-syndicate field, it has been Caniff's most compelling complaint against his present boss. When he works for Marshall Field he will own his own strip, and also...
...Although Caniff's new contract will be with Field, the new strip will be marketed by Hearst's giant King Features, to give it wider distribution. Thus, in Manhattan Hearst's Daily Mirror instead of Field's PM will carry Caniff...