Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow last week the Soviet Press joyously announced that General Nobile has been signed up on a long contract. He will direct construction of the first Soviet dirigible factory. By the end of this year at least one small new Red gas bag will be blimping around Russia, according to the contract...
...which case I might be able to afford FORTUNE. . . . But hang on to your 8:30 Friday contract, will you, TIME...
...full year ago it became an open secret that only a contract held Winchell to the Mirror. He fought continually with Publisher Kobler and he fought with Managing Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau-with whom he used to fight when they occupied similar positions on Bernarr Macfadden's vulgar Graphic. Publisher Kobler objected to Winchell's appearance in vaudeville. He objected to Winchell's radio broadcasts (currently for Lucky Strike), charging that he gave out news to which the paper was first entitled. He removed the colyumist's smart, pert secretary Ruth Cambridge from the payroll (Winchell...
Every move by the Mirror is carefully considered lest it give Winchell the supreme satisfaction of breaking his contract. The instant that should occur Winchell would skip three blocks downtown to Joseph Medill Patterson's big little Daily News (completing his ascension of the scale of Manhattan tabloids). According to Newsdom, weekly of unemployed newspapermen, the News offered Winchell $1,000 a week for a Sunday colyum alone...
...Europe with U. S. Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes...