Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carl Carmer, best-selling folklorist (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum) went to court with Publishers Farrar & Rinehart to settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided...
Located in the University Graduate School of Business, the war adjustment course lasts eight weeks, training officers to handle contract terminations, cutbacks, and property disposal problems that arise when Air Force tactical requirements change...
...favorite figure in his gallery of ingrates: Franklin Roosevelt. In the disastrous coal strike of 1943, said John L., Franklin Roosevelt "publicly kicked every coal miner in this country in the face." And, if he is reelected, he would do it again next April when the miners' contract comes up again, shouted John L. From the hall rose cries of "Pour...
...week's end John L. got down to the good old-fashioned business of attacking the mine owners. (Ray Edmundson had fled town, unable even to gain a seat.) The operators heard that, at next spring's contract negotiations, U.M.W. would want the same pay for a 35-hour week which it is now getting for 40 hours-with portal-to-portal time included at regular rates...
Transport Revolution. Johnson had steered a postwar course before. He left the University of Washington during World War I to become an engineer in Bill Boeing's little airplane factory, became its president nine years later. When the company won a contract to carry air mail from San Francisco to Chicago, he built the planes for the job, and then found himself running an airline. From the first he disapproved the carnival atmosphere aviation had then, and the disapproval drove him to innovations that have become standard in all U.S. air transport...