Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark summer of 1932, over the violent protest of the workers involved, President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America signed a contract with Illinois coal operators reducing the basic daily wage from $6.10 to $5. Whatever justification for this dictatorial procedure there may have been, the reaction of the miners was direct and immediate. A large group revolted, setting themselves up as the Progressive Miners of America, an organization with 30,000 members in the bituminous fields of Illinois and Indiana, which this year joined up with Mr. Lewis' enemy...
...Phil Murray, who is as good a student of heavy industry as any steelmaster, the occasion was not one for unrestrained celebration. He could and did declare: "In not one instance has any officer, national, sub-regional or lodge, ever authorized or fostered a strike in a mill under contract. . . . Observe your contract and your union grows. Violate it and your union dies...
...Thompson officials, thoroughly alarmed, hastened to placate him with an apology, announced publicly they would never do it again. At week 's end the Federal Communications Commission, itself the recipient of many a how-now, demanded an electrical transcription of the program, a copy of the sponsor-broadcaster contract, names of all stations which had carried Miss West's impious Adam...
...This does not mean that the securities of any manufacturer of military planes is a good buy, for military plane construction necessitates huge development expenses which may go for nothing if a competitor gets the contract...
...thinks that the old compulsory hygiene course at Harvard (known to undergraduates as Smut 1) is well buried, that more hygiene can be taught by "daily contacts with the men." Hygienist Bock's chief worry is not the indiscreet ardor of Harvardmen (less than 1% of whom contract venereal disease) but "Harvard indifference toward human personality...