Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come in under the restrictive law. In Mexico City recently he met suave J. Edward Jones of Scarsdale, N.Y., a veteran dealer in oil royalties. Jones talked so persuasively about oil that Bermudez decided that he was the man. Last week Bermudez announced the first U.S.-Mexican oil contract since the expropriation...
...business offers poured in, she an nounced that she planned to take the $5,000 scholarship and use it to finish her studies at Memphis State College. Hollywood was definitely out, she said. Already engaged to a medical school student, she explained: "I'm only interested in one contract - the marriage contract...
...snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...
...year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
...Eugene Ormandy as "principal conductor and musical adviser" for 1948. In a guest appearance last season, Ormandy got more out of the orchestra than anyone else was able to. Ormandy will still keep his winter job with the Philadelphia Orchestra (where he had also succeeded Stokowski), but his new contract calls for him to conduct at least 16 of the Bowl's 1948 summer concerts...