Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures that with 25 trucks, driven...
...seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came up, not one governor present moved for renewal...
...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
...were for the first time lowered to the Pittsburgh level. Announced reason for the change: "Increased production facilities and greater diversification of products" in these two steel centres. To the steel trade, however, it meant that Big Steel, sniped at by non-union independents since it made a wage contract with C.I.O. and pinched by their price concessions had finally abandoned its long time policy of playing ball, was going to squeeze them a little, possibly gaining in competitive advantage something to make up for the price...
...Duvel submitted the CEA's proposals for speculative limits. Thereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace announced that to prevent undue price fluctuation from speculation, the Commission proposed: 1) a 2,000,000 bu. limit on net long or short positions in all futures combined or any one contract market (3,000,000 in "spread positions") except during the delivery month when the limit would be cut to 1,000,000; 2) a daily trading limit per person of 2,000,000 bu. in all futures combined, also cut to 1,000,000 in the delivery month, These limitations, which...