Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week small, spry, white-haired William Wattis was in San Francisco's St. Francis Hospital taking the Coffey-Humber cancer treatment when word reached him that his company had won the contract to build Hoover Dam. His jolly blue eyes snapped with delight. Wrapped in his bathrobe, and puffing a big, black cigar he talked eagerly...
...Colophon (gilt-edged bibliophiles' gilt-edged quarterly) Theodore Dreiser revealed what he believes happened to the first edition of his first novel, Sister Carrie: In 1900 Frank Norris, then reader for Doubleday, Page & Co., persuaded his employers to sign a contract for its publication. Mrs, Frank Doubleday, social worker and moral reformer, read the MS. with a horror that persuaded her husband to "throw the books in the cellar" before putting them on sale. Norris quickly mailed out 100 review copies, the only U. S.-printed volumes of the book in circulation for the next seven years...
...other in the bitterest corporate war of the year. The young man was Walter Paul Paepcke, president of Container Corp. of America. The older man was John Paul Brunt, a director of Container Corp. Mr. Brunt is also executive vice president, although Mr. Paepcke has requested that, until his contract expires five years hence, Mr. Brunt take an "enforced leave of absence...
...grins can serve him. But wiseacres who call his Chase & Sanborn (tea & coffee) broadcast a "flop" forget that in radio no one flops who pleases his client. Chase & Sanborn recently doubled Chevalier's time to an hour (8 to 9 p. m. Sundays). He has a 26-week contract for which he will receive well over $100,000, probably the most ever paid for an extended series...
When Editor Edward Bok retired in 1919, Mrs. Rinehart was offered the editorship of the Ladles' Home Journal, regretfully turned it down. But she went to Hollywood on a three-year contract. Still the family fortunes rose. They moved to a bigger house in Sewickley. They moved to Washington, D. C. They vacationed in the Cascades, in Mexico, in Egypt. The boys grew up, went to college (Harvard) and married. Now two of them are members of the firm of Farrar & Rinehart, have helped publish several of their mother's books...