Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a pretty threefold situation: 1) Expensively lodged in the Commodore, with his lawyers and lieutenants of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the A. F. of L.'s puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike...
...Between and under the two hotels rumbling subways and trains entered Grand Central Terminal-all powered by electricity made from coal. The trains, like most U. S. industry, would not rumble much longer unless John Lewis and the operators agreed on a new labor contract. Unless 460,000 miners went back to work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, 22 other coal-bearing States, there might be such a strike as the U. S. has not seen in the days of Franklin Roosevelt...
...major oil-producing countries, Bolivia last year produced only 106,620 barrels (U. S. production: 1,213,254,000). But potentially important oil resources lie in the foothills of the Andes, where, on its 2,500,000 acres, Standard Oil operated six wells on a 55-year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation of Bolivian oil across her territory provided the expropriated fields were not returned to private owners. Paraguay agreed to give Bolivia: 1) a 325-ft. pipeline right-of-way across...
...mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term contract to MGM, which hopes to make him a second Freddie Bartholomew. The other is Greer Garson, who makes an impressive cinema debut as the short-lived Mrs. Chips...
...Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay. But he has written many poems about going, too-poems that unsay the unspoken contract between him and his Muse...