Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Minister Juliu Maniu: "The existence of a housing shortage in Bucharest is not remarkable when it is recalled that Rumania's territorial size more than doubled as a consequence of the War, and that the population of our Capital increased from 300,000 to 1,000,000. . . . The contract call's for payment of $100,000,000 over fifteen years. . . . Rumania has met all her bond issues up to Monday of this week. In fact she is one of the few countries that have met all their outstanding obligations...
...Maurice Blumenthal, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad's sub-Hudson River tunnels, and David M. Oltarsh, whose achievements include four Childs restaurants and Fifth Avenue's smartmart, Kurzman. Mr. Blumenthal and Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building at No. 40 Wall Street. Their scouts report that "the modernistic trend has not yet reached Rumania." Accordingly they will...
...squirted a hose on the café manager's automobile and on passersby. Tall, lean, industrious, he is seldom so jolly as that, though last week he was to be seen in Manhattan full of great cheers over a new M-G-M cinema contract, and his employers' extravagant advertising...
Electric Auto-Lite Co. (1930 contract for all Ford generators): $11,500,000 (estimated) as against...
Ruth. He made 154 runs in 135 games. He struck out 60 times. He walked 72 times. He received last week in St. Petersburg, a contract offering him $75,000 for two years and ignoring his demand for $85,000 for three years. Said Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the Yankees: ". . . I have gone beyond the limit. . . . In ten years Ruth has made more out of the Yankees than I have. . . . When I go over our annual financial sheets I feel as though I ought to have my head examined...