Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about oil, cotton, shipping and mail-order goods, are in transit a whole business day less than they used to be. Last week the National Air Transport Inc. inaugurated daily service with a fleet of airmail trucks between Chicago and Dallas, the Post Office Department's third contract air route...
...Every railwayman, for example, who went on strike in disregard of his contract is personally liable to be sued in the County Court for damages. Every trade union leader who advised or promoted this course of action is liable to damages to the uttermost farthing† of his personal possessions. I feel it my duty, at whatever cost, to make that plain...
Nevertheless native operators as well as shippers know the basic need for a national merchant marine. They hope perpetually that operating costs will contract or that some managerial genius will arise to keep national ships moving so efficiently that they can really meet foreign competition...
Three weeks ago he was reported in Georgia inspecting with a group of strangers certain textile mills. The natural inference was that he intended placing contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided...
...contract for the construction has already been let and it is expected that work will start shortly. The buildings are to be ready for occupancy by the middle of next September. The designing of the houses has been done by Kilham, Hopkins and Greely, a firm of Boston architects. The letting of rooms will be under the supervision of Mr. George W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...