Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over England the remark took like a Mae West gag line. One person offered ?100 for the rights to it. Since Askey was under contract to BBC he could not sell the gag, but he figured on doing something about it at the expiration of his contract March 15. Fortnight ago, on Page i of The Exchange & Mart, there appeared a two-inch advertisement that angered Big-hearted Arthur and the BBC no end. "Britain's Best Cleaner," it read, with the initials in boldface so that nobody could miss the point, "Askitoff will take it off." Investigation revealed...
...this distrust which led to the kitchen and dining-hall workers' affiliation with the A.F. of L. In a spirit of mutual cooperation they signed a contract with the University which at the time was agreeable to both sides. Through it the University benefitted in efficiency and the workers in a wage increase of upwards of two dollars...
Indicted by a U. S. grand jury at Boston were the first defendants in a wages and hours criminal prosecution. Defendants: Brown's Contract Stitching, Inc. of Lawrence, Mass. Charge: that Brown paid less than 25? an hour, falsified records. Maximum penalties: $10,000 fine for a first offense; $10,000 and six months in prison for a second. Said Elmer Andrews, apprised of the indictment: "The act has teeth in it and the Administration proposes to enforce...
...credit line, no money. The picture itself is likely to aggravate Mr. Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including its fat hostess, Elsa Maxwell (now under contract to a rival company, Twentieth Century-Fox). Columnist Beebe, however, appears in person...
Last week an "economy" committee of the Georgia General Assembly, investigating the $5,000,000 contracts of the Department of Public Welfare for insane asylum buildings at Milledgeville and other projects, turned up one with Robert & Co. which promised the firm 6% (some $300,000) for "architectural and engineering services." Finding that the services consisted partly of help in securing a $2,200,000 RFC loan and $1,800,000 PWA grant for the project, the committee balked. The Georgia House passed a resolution calling for cancellation of the Welfare Department's contract with Robert & Co. Representative Delacey Allen...