Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impressed by the 300,000 instrument landings with G.C.A., the U.S. Air Force this week gave Gilfillan Brothers a new $6,000,000 contract for 30 additional installations. (The Air Force now operates 92.) By year's end, Gilfillan expected to triple its gross (from $4,600,000 to $13 million), boost employment from...
...fifth Rockefeller enterprise, Helicóptero Comercial, S.A., was formed only last week. Its aim: to contract with São Paulo coffee growers to spray their plantations against the deadly broca borer. Rockefeller's technicians found out that ordinary aerial spraying was missing the bugs, but that helicopters, hovering just over the trees and beating the chemical dust right down to the ground, could get them every time...
...undergraduate boards that run the News had long yearned for a printing plant of their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have had their own Gothic quarters, the Briton Hadden Memorial Building,† but the printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting...
Reynolds also voted any adoption of a 14 or 10-meal contract plan such as those which have been advocated in the past. He cited trials of these plans which showed that most students, forced to pay higher rates for full contracts, suffered by the option. University's Roster Declines to 11,863 Final: Estimate School Fall, 1947 Fall, 1948 College 5,595 5,530 GSAS 1,714 1,750 Business 1,490 1,254 Law 2,114 1,650 Medicine 553 560 Education 293 250 Design 202 200 Engineering 261 240 Divinity 105 90 Public Health 99 80 Public...
Reynolds also vetoed any adoption of a 14- or 10-meal contract plan such as those which have been advocated in the past. He cited trials of these plans which showed that most students, forced to pay higher rates for full contracts, suffered by the option...