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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vice-President Reynolds announced yesterday that the University will terminate its contract because of the decrease in occupancy and the rise in costs...
When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
...aide, K. C. Adams, worked over his chewing tobacco and spat copiously into a spittoon as Lewis waved a copy of last year's contract. "We have the bond," John thundered. "Do we get the ducats?" This week, a little ahead of time, his miners began to walk...
Last week, Engineer Lord was back in his Manhattan offices again. Thanks to him, Perón now understood many of the engineering and economic problems facing the five-year plan, was aware that it would take far more than five years to industrialize farm-minded Argentina. Though his contract had ended on March 1 "by mutual consent," Lord had praise for Perón, and with reason. The year, said he, had been worth "much more than a million" to his Inter-American Construction Corp. And he was surer than ever that he wanted to do business in Argentina...
...Engineer Lord could get steel for the Argentines, he could nail a $40 million contract to build in Buenos Aires what he believes would be the world's largest sewage-disposal plant. Lord also has his eye on hydroelectric plant and housing contracts. How to get the profits out? "A company can now withdraw profits up to 12% a year on its investment," he says. "Where else can you get 12% on your money...