Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequate merchant marine has to be a new merchant marine." So wrote Franklin Roosevelt last week pointing out that no freighter for the foreign trade had been built in U. S. shipyards for 15 years. He asked Congress to provide 1) a $10,000,000 appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
...Army placed the largest single order for military aircraft since the World War-177 twin-motored bombers costing $11,651,948.10. To Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., already the world's largest aircraft factory with some 10,000 hands at work, went this huge contract, bringing the Douglas backlog of orders...
...stuffed swan (TIME, July 13). When it was decided to carry the fair into its second season, Manager Lincoln Griffith Dickey thought that perhaps hundreds of almost naked girls might be a better prop than one entirely bare one. The logical man to call in was Billy Rose. His contract was reported to be $100,000 for 101 days...
...after his defeat by Schmeling, Pugilist Louis regained prestige. Champion Braddock and his manager presently decided a bout with Louis might be more profitable than a bout with Schmeling. They signed a contract for that one also. The contracts were mutually exclusive but the ethics of pugilism are such that no one was much surprised at this nor by Champion Braddock's announcement that he had no intention of living up to his contract with Schmeling. Only unusual feature of the affair was the behavior of Pugilist Schmeling...
...obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, L. I., for two Seversky amphibians plus manufacturing rights. The Seversky amphibian holds the world amphibian speed record of 230.4 m.p.h...