Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...kept closed while machinery in the basement supplies air cooled by the equivalent of 30 tons of melting ice per day. Meanwhile builders on the $160,000 reconstruction job were trying to earn the $200 bonus they will get for every day they lop off on the 90-day contract schedule, to avoid a $200-per-day forfeit for overtime...
...only mediocre talent, too mechanical a voice for playacting. Her financial compensation, compared with that for concert-singing, is small. Doubtless influenced by both facts, Galli-Curci announced last week that she was through with the operatic stage. Manhattan's Metropolitan, she said, had released her 'from contract that she might be free to make two years' concert tour through Europe, England, the U. S., Australia...
...contract, pledging the credit of every man, woman and child in Rumania to the extent of approximately $5, was signed with a U. S.-German group of builders and architects last week by Vice President Clinciu of the Rumanian Senate...
Haiti further bound herself by signing another contract for a railroad. The National City Bank of New York was directly or indirectly involved in the railroad company. This second contract had many complicated features in connection with building the road, and also contained the provisions that there should be no diplomatic intervention. Trouble soon developed between the railroad and the Haitian Government. The latter threatened to selves property belonging to the railroad on the ground that the contract had not been fulfilled. The company requested intervention from the United States...
...meantime Haiti was also having a disagreement with the national bank, and matters came to a head in 1914 and 1915, when the bank, because of insufficient collateral, refused the Government money sufficient for its needs, and the Government, contrary to the contract, began coining money to meet the emergency. Differences developed, during which the bank appealed to the United States for help. Before help could come there were two revolutions in rapid succession, and the bank in high alarm asked the United States to send a warship, and quickly. But when this arrived the bank's chief concern proved...