Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers trooped back into the Libbey-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants, ended a strike which had tied up an estimated 75% of the nation's flat glass production since Oct. 22. The basis of settlement: a 10.7? an hour pay increase retroactive to Oct. 2: a contract guaranteeing new wage talks on 20 days' notice by the union...
...mistake-no legislation will be a cureall. . . . Leave this current crisis alone and it will solve itself-and soon.") Senator Harry F. Byrd advised his colleagues to pass a law forcing unions to incorporate, register with SEC, report their finances and election procedures, assume responsibility for any breach of contract...
Unable to move Sorensen-or break his airtight contract-Canaday moved himself from the board chairmanship to a newly created office of "chairman of the finance committee." Then he moved Sorensen to a back seat as vice chairman of the board. Thus the stage was set for a new president and board chairman, who proved to be none other than handsome, globe-girdling James David Mooney, 61, for 19 years head of General Motors' overseas business. Mooney will be both president and board chairman, thus hold the jobs formerly held by Canaday and Sorensen...
...moved to Chicago's United Wallpaper, Inc. as president at $27,000 a year. When war came he went to Washington, made a name as a red-tape slasher, ended up as a brigadier general, Assistant Director of Materiel. He spark-plugged renegotiation, set up the highly efficient contract termination system...
...Craig Rice conceived a child instead of an idea, he would by now have progressed to first grade in school. But the idea has progressed faster. It has already turned into 15 books which have made her a highly successful mystery writer, with Hollywood contracts. And last week it turned into a contract to become editor of her own mystery magazine, the Craig Rice Crime Digest (scheduled to begin publication this spring...