Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insurgents and radicals demanded wage increases of 10% to 25%, a six-hour day and a five-day week. The Scale Committee reported a resolution favoring a four-year contract, and giving the committee, which will negotiate with the operators at Jacksonville on Feb. 11, authority "to secure the best agreement obtainable . . . on the basis of no reduction in wages...
...that the cost-plus contract system has been approved and adopted as a policy by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker...
...upset, so upset that I sang very badly at the audition. I did not care. I was so angry that I was glad, as I thought, to have failed to secure an engagement with Hammerstein. But when I was through, he praised me absurdly, and gave me a contract. In a few weeks I was sailing for New York. I was not so unhappy. More acquaintance with the man had taught me that, while he was uncouth, the power of genius...
President H. B. Thayer, of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., speaking of the contract with the Radio Corporation, declared of the latter enterprise: "The effect has not been to restrain trade, but to expand...
...Danish representative of the Ford Company has contracted with the Soviet Government for the importation of Ford cars into Russia. All cars thus sold will be made in Ford's Copenhagen factory, or else be imported from America through Copenhagen. The contract calls for 18,000 cars annually...