Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours before a midnight strike deadline, the Government took a step under Taft-Hartley. For the first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...
...fountain pen. He gave up his plan of making their key stations hire more musicians. He agreed not to ask for a pay increase. He decided, after three years of stubborn resistance, to let union musicians appear on television programs. When he signed a new three-year contract last week, NBC's Vice President Frank Mullen couldn't resist giving him a present-a shiny, new gold trumpet...
Jimmy picked it up, beamed, and blew a triumphant blast. The new contract had its compensations. It assures his musicians their present jobs at their present handsome wages for three long years, and gives them a chance for additional ones on television...
...experimental spirit of Dunster men has reached forth into almost every phase of undergraduate activity, and even beyond. First to inaugurate forums where discussions range from socialism to semantics, the House has most recently innovated student-taught classes in the fine arts of rhumba, contract bridge, and barber shop harmony...
Beneficiaries of Public Law 16, however, "don't have to worry," Monro said, because the VA, under contract, reimburses the University for all standard payments incurred by the veterans...