Word: contract
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, $200,000 on a personal contract with Adolph Zukor to make a singing picture for Paramount...
That little sum, nonetheless, was a fine accolade to the oldest national free tuberculosis hospital in the U. S. Jews built it in 1890 when their co-religionists emigrated in waves from their Polish villages to contract consumption in Manhattan's crowded slums. Now the hospital, supported mainly by Jews, has non-Jews on its staff and among its patients...
Granite, Indiana limestone, Tennessee marble and other indigenous U. S. building materials began to be routed last week to a parklike strip between the Capitol and the Potomac which Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department...
When payments for the first lot fell due, the first Pollier company was declared unable to meet its obligations to the Treasury, but a second and ostensibly stronger company was formed to assume the debt and contract for still more sugar. This procedure was repeated several times. Meanwhile the sugar was sold, mostly in England, and the profits were salted away outside of France...
...attention from as many sources as possible. The monopoly of the University's physical development should by no means be intrusted to a single firm until it has made a strenuous effort to present a satisfactory solution of the controversial location of units. A competition for such a mammoth contract would draw forth valuable suggestions from a wide variety of competent sources. Such a procedure is the only way to procure the adequate consideration emphasized so strongly by both the report and the authoritative criticism...