Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this sum only three millions were realized. Then the Continental Trading Co. was disbanded. The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. (mentioned above as "a third company") bought the remaining contract...
...handy with a sword that when a fat old sheik, bargaining over a contract with the French Government, suggests a clause which will present him with the possession of a beautiful American woman, Major Beaujolais dares to refuse with equable asperity. Then there are several reels of sharp sabre-play, sand, and mine explosions. Lastly, the old sheik accepts a contract which omits the tur-pitudinous Santa clause; the lady properly rewards her sabreur...
...tail up and lashing, with head low and small eyes rolling wickedly, he purposed to charge down a street thronging with pre-dinner-time crowds. Stalked fear, reigned panic. Suddenly from the doorway of an office building emerged the great matador* Fortuna. 'He had been upstairs signing a contract. He carried no bull baiting gear, wore an inconspicuous rain coat. Even . thus he was instantly recognized. Screamed women: "Save us Fortuna!" Throated men: "Kill the bull:" Serene, the great Fortuna moved with unhurried, catlike swiftness to satisfy the unreasonable demands of his public. Stripping off his rain coat...
Procedure: 1.) German Hop Grower makes contract with French Hop Merchant to ship hops at the supposedly current price per hop; 2.) Payment to German Hop Grower is made by the German Government, which is credited by the Reparations Commission with having paid this sum to the French Government; 3.) French Government eventually receives payment from French Hop Merchant after he sells the hops...
Refused a new contract as Chicago's superintendent of schools because of charges that he introduced British propaganda into school histories. Dr. William McAndrew made known last week that he will become editor of histories for the Century Company, New York publishers. He made the announcement while giving a lecture entitled "Life Among the Boneheads...