Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a fast, hard worker, he could not have satisfied the quick public demand for his pretty women and his quietly satirical drawings of society life. By the time he was 25, he was the most sought-after black-&-white artist in the U.S. His fattest contract came in 1893, when Collier's agreed to pay $100,000 for 100 drawings...
Hollow-cheeked Frank Sinatra made people listen, but he just didn't move them to go out and buy vitamins. The evidence was conclusive, and Vimms canceled its year-old contract. But there was solace for the swoonmaster: a new sponsor wanted him enough to raise the weekly ante from...
...close on the enemy's heels. The Japanese were herded out of Kweichow and the Chinese spilled back into Kwangsi Province. At week's end they had branched out across country, and were taking over Hochih, 40 miles inside Kwangsi. Behind the advancing Chinese troops, conscript and contract laborers already worked to restore recaptured airstrips for emergency use by Major General Chennault's fighters. But the nearest major air base, at Liuchow, was 95 miles beyond Hochih...
...Drug Co. stores which United now operates in California. It also marks the first expansion move for United under Dart. When Dart, ex-son-in-law of Walgreen Co.'s Charles R. Walgreen Sr., went to United in 1942 (TIME, May 11, 1942), he started to contract sprawling United. He telescoped three candy and confectionery plants into one and consolidated the company's stationery-manufacturing units, along with purchasing, advertising, financial and accounting work...
...first official word to U.S. business that the cutbacks in war production after V-E day have shrunk from the 40% which WPB once promised to a slim 15-20%. (Actually General Somervell had overstated the case by lumping in all the costs of ending the German war, contract terminations...