Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually accurate, TIME errs in its March 28 issue in referring to Mr. Justice Branson [the London judge who decided against Bette Davis in her contract difficulties with Warner Brothers] as "His Honor." English usage confers this title on a County Court Judge, the correct reference to a Supreme Court Justice being "His Lordship...
...monopoly, for commercial use in German Zeppelins. In Washington, Secretary Ickes, charged with exacting a German guarantee that the gas would be used only for peaceful purposes, let it be known that he was holding up shipment because he could find no way of drawing up a sufficiently watertight contract...
...National Life Insurance Co. was, not surprisingly, in receivership. General Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., which sells about everything else, decided that this was the time to go into the life insurance business. He formed Hercules Life Insurance Co. and applied to the court for the contract to reinsure National Life's 112,000 policyholders. Along with the 112,000 policies, he got the 11,050 shares of Continental Illinois...
...Board of Trade's member firms, Cargill is the only one to advocate such CEA limitation of speculation. With the strict Scotch Presbyterianism of its bosses, Cargill claims to regard a future contract as a contract to be fulfilled to the letter-which means actual delivery of grain. Most brokers regard a future merely as a hedging or speculative mechanism. Nor is this the only seed of contention between Cargill and the Board of Trade. Though Cargill has been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until...
...pages. Whatever Mr. Spiro's policy, he will have difficulty matching the frankness of the final Bridge World editorial while under Culbertson ownership: "Every bridge writer with the facilities to do so is even now working on some sort of book, any sort of book, about five-suit contract. There will be a quick sale for it. The public can discover its unsoundness later, when the money is already in the till. Naturally, the editors of the Bridge World are in the thick of it, getting their own book on five-suit bridge printed and on sale...