Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Graeme Lorimer's eyes turned toward Hollywood, a fugitive from the film colony. Merritt Hulburd, will fill his vacancy on the Post. Merritt Hulburd, Graeme Lorimer's classmate (1923) and fraternity brother (Psi U) at the University of Pennsylvania, persuaded Samuel Goldwyn to tear up his contract, which had over three years to run, so that he could return to the magazine he left six years ago. Two other associate editors taken on in 1937 are Stuart Rose, Ladies' Home Journal fiction editor who does not take office until February, and Joseph St. George Bryan...
...what "President Roosevelt believes workmen should have." Only difficulty is that the $1,700 a day his company pany receives from the P. 0. is not enough to provide the $135,000 annual addition to the payroll that shorter hours would entail. In place of the present contract the company suggests the P. 0. take over the system, pay it rent, "considerably less than $10,000 a mile." Last week's deadline, when the company threatened to quit, came and passed. The P. 0., which has the company under contract for another six months, is confident that...
...newsprint mills fix what to charge the publishers. Formerly newsprint prices fluctuated as restlessly as any lover of free competition could desire. But in more recent times (and consistently since the newsprint industry tasted the sweets of NRA) it has announced its next year's contract price all at once-and the price is generally the lowest asked by any mill turning out more than 100,000 tons a year. In the majority of cases this mill has been Great Northern Paper Co. of Maine...
...would go up too. But publishers put their trust in Great Northern at least to raise them gently. Last March, International Paper & Power, biggest paper company in the world and leader of the Canadian mills which would like still higher prices, beat Great Northern to it, announced a $50 contract price for the first six months of 1938. Great Northern's price, announced seven months later, was $48 for the first six months and $50 for the second six months, which in effect keeps International from raising its price again till...
Union organizers voiced assurance, however, that in spite of inadequate wage compensation a contract would be willingly signed by Locals 186 and 112 if the American Federation of Labor were given exclusive bargaining rights for all employed in Harvard dining halls...