Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make up the deficit, McKay proposed a 40% increase on power supplied by the administration to rural electric cooperatives. Seaton sliced the coops' rate increase to 27½%, suggested other revenue by increasing rates on power supplied to private power companies. He also demanded that a 30-year contract between Southwestern Power and the Reynolds Metals Co., fashioned by Truman Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, be renegotiated to allow higher rates...
...water lowered into the depths." Damage can occur only when there is an unequalized difference of pressure-and that means where there is air, i.e., in the lungs and airways, paranasal sinuses and the middle ear. (Gas in the gut gives no trouble because the supple intestinal walls simply contract to equalize the pressure...
...Dave McDonald. Preliminary count gave Insurgent Leader Don Rarick (TIME, Dec. 10) more than one-third of the ballots, which he interprets as a mandate to keep the anti-McDonald bloc intact and try again for election in 1961. Steelmakers fear Rarick group may try to outdo McDonald in contract demands, thus put squeeze on industry...
...International Longshoremen's Assn. Inc. said its renewed contract strike was 100 per cent effective among its 45,000 dockers. No one disputed the estimate...
There are two statutes in the General Laws of Massachusetts, however, which do somewhat confine the School Committee statutes upon which Shaplin is relying to obtain a permanent injunction against the appointments. Chapter 71, Section 38, of the General Laws reads: "it (the committee) shall elect and contract with the teachers of the public schools, shall require full and satisfactory evidence of their moral character, and shall ascertain their qualifications for teaching and their capacity for the government of schools." Section 59 of the same chapter also reads in part: A superintendent... shall be the executive officer of the committee...