Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty minutes after the cobra struck, Mrs. Wiley was in Long Beach Municipal Hospital. The only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
Some examples of World Video's doings: Ilka Chase narrating a "Cook's Tour" of Paris' haute cuisine; the editors of Field &Stream collaborating on a Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
Plenty of Room. Fox himself is anxious to dispel any suspicions that he stands to profit by unfair "monopoly" or "state trading." His contract, he says, affects only about 25% of the islands' total trade ($450 million in 1940), and private Indonesians are free to deal with whom they please. Competitors, he insists, are welcome-particularly from...
Meanwhile, the Dutch have argued that Fox's contract violates the Renville truce agreement under which they keep full sovereignty (and the right to negotiate foreign agreements) until 1949. The State Department, always sensitive to the more enterprising doings of its nationals abroad, has said nothing officially...
After that, the rest was easy. The coal operators caved in quickly and signed a contract which was a complete victory for John. It calls for: 1) a $1-a-day wage increase;* 2) renewal of a union shop; 3) a boost in the welfare-fund royalty from 10? to 20? a ton. Estimated cost to the operators: more than $200 million a year. Expected increase in the price of coal...