Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blame for the breakdown in negotiations over the pension fund. As for the current strike, which John insisted was not a strike, the board thought it "was more than a coincidence" that after John wrote his miners a letter saying that the operators had "dishonored" the 1947 coal contract, the miners had walked...
Koppers Cops. Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc. got a Government contract to build a $4,413,250 plant to make oil from coal near Louisiana, Mo. It was the fourth Government-sponsored synthetic oil plant authorized since 1944 (the others : an earlier oil-from-coal plant at Louisiana, Mo.; an oil-from-shale plant at Rifle, Colo., and a fuel-from-farm-products plant at Peoria...
...contract between the Harvard Club of New York and the Hotel and Club Employees Union (an affiliate of the Hotel Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, A. F. of L.) expired on the 29th of February, 1948. For two weeks preceding the expiration date, the union and the Club met in almost continuous conference in an attempt to reach a settlement; for 18 days after the expiration date, bargaining continued while the employees remained at work under the conditions provided by the old contract. The maximum offer made by the Club was the extension of the expired contract...
Even by the extremely low standards of the hotel and club industry, the working conditions provided by the recently expired contract are considerably below...
Granted there is much to be said for the type of socialism which the compulsary 21 meal contract involves. If an option were to be given for 10 or 14 meal contracts, the rate for the full 21 would have to be raised somewhat is order to lower the rate to any extent for the limited contract basis. But it is not purely a question of those who can afford paying for meals they do not eat in order to help those who cannot afford. Because of the diversity of the groups involved and the position of the administration...