Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many Contract Cases...
...hair brought her to the attention of Howard Hughes in 1929 and thus launched a career which has done more than any other one thing to keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight and Bombshell, Jean Harlow has paradoxically made herself a symbol for the kind of allure which...
...ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned up in Manhattan as a law clerk in the famed firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. One day he prepared a contract on short notice for Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell when that dynamic utilitarian was president of Electric Bond & Share. Mr. Mitchell liked the contract, thought Clerk Odium a versatile young man. Then & there he installed him at Electric Bond & Share as a private assistant. Before he left in 1931 Floyd Odium...
Common carriers must obtain certificates of public convenience and necessity, which will be given automatically to those in business as of June 1. Contract carriers must obtain permits, will get them automatically if they were in business as of July 1. Others, to operate, must show cause. Complete control is given ICC over common carrier passenger & freight rates...
That last week's settlement might really have been amicable was indicated by the terms revealed. Producer Sheehan kept his fat block of Fox stock, got something like $360,000 for his contract which had 14 months to run. In the new regime at Fox-henceforth to be called Twentieth Century-Fox-Producer Zanuck will have Producer Sheehan's old job as Production Chief, direct studio operations under the nominal control of President Kent...