Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
Johnny Weissmuller, whose waist measurement outgrew his Tarzan role, was forced to keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...ever since. In three months he traveled 3,000 miles, for the Satevepost, wrote four articles, went through 73 historical source books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words) every day for 120 days...
...annual contract battle between John L. Lewis and soft coal mine owners begins today when the United Mine Workers' chief calls together his 200-men union policy committee. The session will decide on demands for a new contract to succeed the present industry agreement due to expire June...
Bingham's statement came in answer to the New York Herald Tribune reports that Howard (Jake) Cann, New York University coach, was "interested" in the Harvard job. Cann, after 26 years of coaching at NYU, is "dissatisfied with year-to-year contracts." He indicated that he was chiefly interested in getting a contract covering a longer period...