Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not for long avoid the crucial issues of labor and taxes. At week's end John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
...minute May was urging an ordnance colonel to "get a nice, big contract" for his good friends Murray and Henry Garsson to manufacture artillery shells. The next, he was demanding draft deferment for an acrobat friend of Murray Garsson. Then he was back to see if the Garssons could not get an Army contract to build wooden watertanks...
...Brooklyn, the A.F.L. coffeemaker's union wangled a contract which gives every worker in one plant a summer day off (with pay) to watch the Dodgers play...
...didn't want the responsibility. Now, when bands and nightclubs were dropping like overripe apples in a high wind, Tex keeps a payroll of more than 40 busy at a weekly overhead of $9,200. He is making no fortune at it, but a new radio contract with Miller's old sponsor, Chesterfield cigarets, will help to foot the bill. Drawled Tex: "I don't know whether Glenn figured that times would be as tough...
Miss Roche signed a contract with the union, the first in Colorado. But the shaky company, heavily over-capitalized by her father, began to slip when natural gas came into Colorado, went bankrupt in 1944 (TIME, Aug. 6, 1945). When liquidation is completed, in five or six years, Lewmurken, which owns 23% of the company, may have received as much as $300,000 in all. But the U.M.W. is shedding no tears over its loss. It was richly repaid in the unionization of all Colorado coal mines...