Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin last week young Lee resented being called "a go-between for anybody." Cried he: "Father's $25,000 contract with the German dye trust calls merely for giving his best advice on methods of improving German-American relations. This is a perfectly business-like contract...
...first sales were held up 25 minutes while City Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick hurried over from City Hall to make a speech. At the sound of the gong, Commodity Exchange President Jerome Lewine stepped forward to buy a September lead contract at 3.70¢ per lb. A zinc contract was sold at 4.40¢ per lb. Both transactions were for 60,000 lb.?the trading unit selected by the Exchange. In a rush of trading which continued all day, sales of lead futures reached 1,380,000 lb., zinc futures...
...Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high-school basketball and swimming teams for three years, he also played football. Instead of going on to college he played baseball with the San Francisco Seals, went to Salt Lake City for a year's seasoning, returned to San Francisco for the season...
...hire her; he considered her appearance unattractive. Born in Lowell Mass., in 1908, Bette Davis grew up in Boston, went to Manhattan in 1927 to study acting under John Murray Anderson, got her start in a Provincetown Theatre production. After two seasons in Manhattan plays, she secured a Universal contract, playing bits until George Arliss selected her for The Man Who Played God (1932). Since then she has worked up to the position of star in pictures like So Big, The Rich Are Always With Us, Dark Horse, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing, Cabin in the Cotton, Ex-Lady...
Died. Milton C. Work. 69. whist and bridge authority, founder with Sidney Lenz of the "official" system of contract bridge bidding; of cancer; in Philadelphia...