Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seizure. But since John L. Lewis' full demands have not yet been approved by the War Labor Board, Attorney General Biddle last week ruled that the U.S. can operate the mines indefinitely. Biddle's reasoning: Lewis might balk if the owners get their mines back before a contract is signed, therefore "productive efficiency" has not been established...
...Said he: "If hostilities end on one major front before they end on other fronts, large-scale demobilization adjustments will be possible and necessary. . . ." But he warned that the budget would not drop as quickly as production. There would still be tremendous sums required for mustering out pay, and contract termination payments...
...Gardiner was pleased as Punch to announce that: 1) the Cabinet had agreed to pay a subsidy on top-grade hogs, to keep up Canada's war-record production of bacon; 2) Britain, which depends on the Canadian larder in wartime only, was dickering for a four-year contract on Canadian bacon...
...second announcement was even better than the first. A long-term contract would give the Dominion's farmers long-term priority in the British market, which belonged mostly to Denmark before...
With the cash, Aluminum of Canada expanded its facilities on Quebec's Saguenay River, helped the U.S. over the aluminum hump with quick shipments from its reserve. But Aluminum of Canada still has some half-billion pounds to ship, and has a hard & fast contract requiring the RFC to pay a 5?-a-lb. penalty if the contract is canceled...