Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hinckley resigned from his Commerce job and-he hoped-from government, took a plush, fancy-salaried job as vice president of the Sperry Corp. Asked to come back to Washington, he refused repeatedly, finally saw Franklin Roosevelt. By the time he left the White House, Hinckley was making contract termination plans...
President Roosevelt gave one of the toughest of all Washington jobs to a Utahan last week. Pink-cheeked, balding, urbane Robert Henry Hinckley, 53, a onetime Mormon missionary and small-town schoolteacher, was appointed Director of Contract Settlement...
...Contract settlement will be one long cat-&-dog fight, and Bob Hinckley knows it. To avoid trouble, he will aim for speed, fairness and uniformity. Soothing irate industrialists who feel that their competitors may take off too far ahead of them will require a maximum of astute diplomacy. "It's staggering to look at," Hinckley said, "but I believe it can be done...
...sued. Last fortnight the hotelkeeper told a British court that his house was full of Americans when Constantine arrived, argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should not bow to U.S. prejudices...
Though not yet charted in detail, the new office of military science appeared likely to consist of a board of top U.S. scientists. The board would order and supervise Government-financed research projects, which might either be farmed out to university laboratories under contract or carried out in Government laboratories under the board's direct control. Its object would be to keep at least a nucleus of civilian scientists at work on preparedness after...