Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abroad of 16-in. guns, a U. S. specialty, nor may Navy proving grounds be used to test the quality of guns or armor plate. But 15-in. guns, big as those on H. M. S. Hood would be quite all right. Shipyard rumors last week gave Bethlehem the contract. Within 18 months Comrade Orlov may set himself the gigantic task of making order out of a series of shipments that will include everything from turrets, barbettes, gears, pistons, armor plates, electric hoists, turbines, boilers, stanchions, steampipes, searchlights, smokestacks to a davit for the Captain...
...when he was attorney for the Chicago White Sox players in baseball's most famed scandal. A onetime professional baseballer himself, he usually pitches in the annual House v. Congressional Press Gallery game. Basis of his complaint to Attorney General Cummings was that "if a player's contract expires and the . . . club owner submits a new contract... the player must either sign the contract... or he is forever barred from playing organized baseball. . . ." Since the existence of organized baseball depends on the existence of some form of agreement between club owners to prevent the richest club from hiring...
Chief grievance of the American Federation of Teachers, a full-fledged labor union affiliated with the A. F. of L., is the fact that its President Jerome Davis will not be reappointed to Yale's Divinity School faculty when his contract expires in June. Last week the Federation received two more jolts, from Harvard. Its vice president, John Raymond Walsh, and the secretary of its Harvard unit, Alan Richardson Sweezy, were informed that when their contracts expire in June, both will receive "two-year concluding contracts" instead of three-year renewals. In union language there was no doubt that...
...Wadlow, Ringlings' Manager Sam Gumpertz once more justified his reputation for persuasiveness and astuteness. Robert's father had turned down all previous show offers. Robert, who is 19 and does what his father says, has gotten to like circus life much better than he expected. The Wadlow contract, whose money terms are unrevealed, calls only for appearances in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Boston...
...clothing company is credited with having been the first in the trade to go in for national advertising (1897), first to adopt an "all-wool" policy (1900), first to abolish contract homework (1910), first to sign a collective bargaining agreement (1911), first with the camel's hair coat (1912), first to guarantee color-fastness (1915). Stressed particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start...