Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liver money." When the late Depression-remember the Depression ?-was at its worst, a reduction was ordered in the foreign technical staff, and salary cuts for those that remained. Now, cats are foreign staff, in that they do not come under any of the Argentine labor laws or the contract with the labor federation. And if a cat's a good mouser, he sure has to be a technician. It was unanimously decided not to fire any of the feline personnel, but they did have to stand a salary...
...takes 5 ½ hr. The Clipper leaves Long Island every Thursday, returns Sunday. The Cavalier leaves Long Island Saturday, returns Wednesday. Airmail is carried from Bermuda in the Cavalier. No airmail can be carried to Bermuda because the U. S. Post Office has not awarded a contract...
...confirmation, and on his desk it lay for a full five weeks while newshawks waited patiently and 310 artists, many of them nationally prominent, nervously bit their nails. Fortnight ago somebody jogged Secretary Ickes' elbow and the jury's award was approved without comment. The mural contract, a $5,500 job to be completed within a year, went to Manhattan-born Muralist Louis Bouch...
Both in terms of the contract and the type of goods sold, however, installment selling in the 1930's differs from that of the 1920's. Reared to respectability by the automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment...
...terms of the installment contract have been steadily eased. Where they have not been eliminated entirely, down payments have been sharply reduced. To make it easier to go into debt, payments have been lowered by extending the term from ten or twelve months to two or three years, sometimes as much as five years. Installment credit has also been eased quantitatively. Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward now sell mail-order merchandise for deferred payment in amounts...