Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding negotiations for a new G. M. contract. After a five-month wrangle at the council table G. M. and the union negotiators finally agreed to a 15-page document. Fortnight ago the document was submitted to union delegates from all G. M. plants- and flatly rejected...
...wife of Leftist Aviator Harold Dahl (captured by General Franco's Moorish troops, condemned to death, and subsequently pardoned) did not read TIME'S story (Oct. 18) carefully. TIME said California wanted them both: him for three forgery charges, her for a movie contract in Hollywood. But TIME erred: Aviator Dahl is wanted on eight counts for passing rubber checks...
Inheritor last January of $1,000,000, most of which "slipped through my fingers like quicksilver," Geraldine Spreckels Spreckels, 21-year-old great-granddaughter of the late rich Sugar Tycoon Claus Spreckels, signed a Warner Brothers contract as a feature player, hopes to play second lead to Bette Davis in Warners' forthcoming Jezebel. Cinemactress Spreckels is currently separated from her Cousin-Husband Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., whose third wife she is. Not to be confused with many & many another Spreckels kin, she will act under the name of Anna Johns...
...novels that sell less than 2,500. Consequently when publishers' lists are growing longer, sure-selling writers have almost as many opportunities to change publishers as they have invitations to literary teas. Publishers accept only one per cent of all manuscripts offered them* (including those of authors under contract), which means they are in the odd predicament of needing new books even while many of those they print remain unsold. As one of the few doing business outside New York's gossipy, interwoven, competitive publishing circle, Philadelphia's old-line Publisher James Lippincott was not anxious...
Four years ago, Pan American-Grace Airways had its first ,big South American freight order, a 55-ton shipment. Fortnight ago, the same line signed the largest air express contract on record and last week reported the successful completion of the first dozen bites into the 1,000,000 Ib. of equipment that it has agreed to fly over the Andes into northern Bolivia to reopen a gold mine abandoned two centuries...