Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investment trust field took another spurt last week. Tri-Continental Corp., sponsored by J. & W. Seligman & Co., bought control of Broad Street Management Corp. which carries with it control of Capital Administration Co., Ltd., an investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and a management contract with Broad Street Investment Co. The purchases swell the net assets controlled by Tri-Continental to over $40,000,000 by adding...
Four months ago Columbia Broadcasting Co. tucked another contract away in the safe, announced that a new man named Little Jack Little would be in to broadcast on weekday mornings from 9 to 9:15. Early morning broadcasts are beneath the notice of radio's star entertainers. The day Little Jack Little started on his new job Guy Lombardo, the orchestra leader, sent a telegram asking him why he did not double his income by taking on a milk route...
...reports during the flight or for eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages to N.A. N. A. When he sued for payment at $500 per message the news agency offered in defense that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated...
...Basil Dean thought she had the face of a fairy and the sophistication of a siren. When Charlie Chaplin was in England last spring, there were rumors that he and Cinemactress Maritza were engaged, that she would play the lead in his next picture. Instead, she accepted a Paramount contract, boarded the boat two days after an appendectomy. Her first Paramount picture, Forgotten Commandments, released last week, is partly an inconsequential morality play, partly a revival of Cecil De Mille's silent film The Ten Commandments...
Under this contract, with a total of ten years to run, payments of $3,150,000 will be made. The entire fleet of ships, for which $400,000 was to have been paid, thus becomes not only an outright gift, but an additional $2,750,000 in cash is paid to the ship owner...