Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...champion, to Miss Bessie McNear of Kansas City, Mo., in Chicago. During the ceremony the champion's manager broke out of the room, in which Mr. Lewis' friends tried to lock him, shouting: "It's the first time Ed ever double-crossed me!" Lewis was under contract not to marry while champion. Mr. Lewis was divorced last summer from Mrs. Ida Scott Fredericks, a woman physician in San José (TIME, July...
...Dutch scientist named Eijkman discovered that fowls contract a certain disease like beriberi if fed upon polished rice; that they can be cured by feeding them the part of the rice grain removed in polishing. In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was. Since that time vitamin has followed vitamin in quick succession?mainly discovered in U. S. laboratories. The orthodox three are "Fat-soluble A," "Water-soluble B," and "Water-soluble C." Then. there is Vitamin X," the reproductive vitamin. And lately many investigators have been working...
...Federal Government has filed suit against the General Electric Co., charging it with conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law in its system for manufacturing and distributing electric light bulbs. The suit is mainly directed against a contract system between the General Electric and several companies engaged in distributing electric bulbs, as preventing competition. The petition declares that the Company does a business amounting to about $50,000,000 a year. General Electric claims patent rights for the exclusive manufacture of tungsten filaments used in the better grade of bulbs today...
...contract for the printing of the Freshman Red Book has been given to the Andover Press, according to an announcement made last night. The provisions of the contract require that one half the contents be delivered to the publisher by April 24, and the rest by May 7. The 1927 Red Book will probably be ready for distribution about June...
Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France: "I entered into a preliminary contract for the purchase of a residence in the Avenue d'Iena for the American Embassy. I announced, however, that refitting will take several months so that even under the most favorable circumstances it cannot be occupied until toward the end of the year...