Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine had to do something adventurous to vindicate himself...
...respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible to those who read of his exploit. Saint Simeon was actuated by religious aspirations; the present marvel of Newark is in pursuit of a vaudeville contract...
...select rugs over the telephone to match a wall paper we have not seen. We place a contract for 10,000 tons of coal in the morning, and spend an hour over a pound of tacks to match a sample in the afternoon...
...committee also proposed to delete entirely the old article of the Presbyterian Confession of Faith: "Adultery or fornication, committed after a contract [for marriage], being detected before marriage, giveth just occasion to the innocent party to dissolve that contract...
...this number, after careful consideration of prospective ability, character and apitude of each of the contestants, ten candidates will be chosen who will be given an eight-week try-out in the First National movie school at Burbank, California. Those who prove themselves valuable will be given five-year contracts with the film corporation with a salary of $75 a week for the first six months, gradually increased so that during the last year of the contract they will be receiving $750 a week...