Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which once own stock in the Gannett Newspapers." He asserts that the Federal Trade Commission reported "the name of the firm is International Paper & Power Co." FTC said nothing of the kind. Its final report names International Paper Co. as the concern which, in return for a longterm newsprint contract, helped me to finance the purchase of three newspapers...
...Soft-coal operators under contract to John Lewis "check off" the dues of his members from their payrolls, but do not require all their workers to belong to his union...
Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last...
Lewis, O'Neill & associates were not simply wasting time. Each side waited for the other to crack under increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including...
Hailed last week as the "Aurora Flash" and sought as a contract rider, baby-faced Johnny Oros, as bashful and unsophisticated as Don Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...