Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have anything more effective than machine guns. Largely due to Senator Copeland, $13,000,000 went into the army's 1938 appropriation specifically earmarked for antiaircraft, and the army was authorized to contract for $10,000,000 more in antiaircraft ordnance, for later delivery. Last week the army placed its orders: for 333 weapons and ammunition, range finders, searchlights and other accessories to match. Most of the guns will be made piecemeal by private factories, assembled in army arsenals. The guns, basically similar...
...Woolworth car, having finished its travels and peacefully retired to a siding, the Association of Distributors offered the Warehousemen's Union a "master contract" to end the lockout. Main feature of the contract, designed to replace the union's existing or expired contracts with individual warehousemen: compulsory arbitration, no strikes or lockouts until 1940, to prevent quickie stoppages during the Golden Gate International Exposition next year. This offer the warehousemen refused, on the ground that having all the contracts expire at once would precipitate another general crisis...
...Collective agreement" in Britain does not mean a labor contract between one employer and one union. It means a contract between a group of associated employers and a union or a group of associated unions...
...covenants not to create any mortgage, pledge or lien upon its shares unless the new debenture shares are equally secured. In having no fixed maturity, the new issue is like a consol or certain British "debenture shares." Where the new issue is unique is in Sunray's contract to set aside a sinking fund of 10% of its monthly gross sales. With this sinking fund the company's trustee each month must buy debenture shares in the open market at any price up to $26.25. If debenture shares cannot be bought thus, the trustee must then call them...
When it was announced three weeks ago that Harold Thomas Henry (Boake) Carter's contract to broadcast for General Foods would not be renewed for the last quarter of the year, all parties to the agreement were unanimous in denying that Boake Carter's unpopularity with labor and the Government had anything to do with the failure to renew. Last week, when Newscaster Carter made his last broadcast for Post Toasties and Huskies, Announcer Erik Rolf repeated the official explanation-that it had been impossible to buy desirable time on the fall network schedules (TIME...