Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Advertisement in future registration CRIMSON issues to avoid contract solicitation was recommended by the Council but no action was taken...
...baring his economic fangs to the extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted...
Awakening. Last fall Publisher Bowles, still mad at the printers, suddenly shut up shop rather than sign a contract with them. Deprived of news, Springfield was jolted into realizing what it can mean to be a monopoly town...
...circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went back to work...
...chairman also ventured that in the light of these developments the government would turn back the mines to private operation before the present June 30 deadline. The miners and operators will have to negotiate a new contract before the end of June, he said, if the handing back is to take place ahead of schedule...