Word: subcontract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine trouble but labor trouble that threatened Pilot Baker with a crash landing. For six months this year most of his regular employees were out on strike. His clerks left when he insisted on his right to subcontract clerical work. Then mechanics refused to cross the clerks' picket lines. His pilots walked out after Baker fired one of them when his plane crashed. Baker hired a new staff and kept his planes flying, but he could no longer make his airline pay, especially as travelers were leary of his new help. Even after the clerks returned to work...
...been feuding ever since Howe notified Drew last month that T.C.A., previously too short of planes to do the job, now had enough equipment. As a result, said Howe, the arrangement with Transocean Air Lines, a U.S. firm which had brought over most of the immigrants under a T.C.A. subcontract, would end on April 15. That, said Howe, would help Canada conserve U.S. dollars. Furthermore, Transocean was using "substandard" equipment. (Transocean uses U.S.-made DC-4s; Trans-Canada uses Canada-made North Stars, i.e., modified DC-6s with British engines...
...Gain. For the first time in four years, buyers of human hair for the Venida Hair Nets are en route to China. They will buy hair for 65 million hairnets, subcontract the net-making to 300,000 Chinese women...
...Well done," said the Marine Corps when four prisoners in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary completed their subcontract for wooden tent pegs. But the Philadelphia Record, delving into the business affairs of the convict-capitalists last week, was not so pleased. The reason: the four prisoners had grossed $58,300 in two years. In some months, their net profits ran as high as $450 apiece...
When the 1942 Revenue Act finally ground to passage, it contained under Title VIII, Section 801, this sentence: "The term 'excessive profits' means any amount of a contract or subcontract price which is found as a result of renegotiation to represent excessive profits...