Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although France is the chief asylum of Tsarist refugees and definitely the power most hostile to Russia, still, last week, La Société Pétrofina Française signed a new, bigger-than-ever contract for Red oil to be consumed in France...
...French company's first Soviet contract was for 70,000 metric tons of oil. The new contract is for 300,000 metric tons (about...
...same one. Pictures which he skillfully took with it interested the editor of the Sketch. He gave an exhibition, received commissions at $500 apiece (post-Depression price:' $300) to do society portraits, was imported to the U. S. by Publisher Conde Nast who recently gave him an exclusive contract for written articles, reproduction rights to all photographs. Mr. Nast made Photographer Beaton a present of a new, expensive camera, "which he grudgingly uses, still clinging to his Kodak whenever possible. Lately Cecil Beaton published an elegant pink-&-white quarto entitled The Book of Beauty, reproducing many of his more...
...Charley Urban, onetime University of Pennsylvania footballer and 2201b. wrestler, signed a professional wrestling contract with a Philadelphia promoter. "A preacher doesn't get much money and the little I can make on the side will keep me in a cheerful frame of mind which . . . will be reflected in my sermons," said...
About the same time the St. Louis Star sued for admission to the A. P., which had made an exclusive contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In that case the A. P. won on the decision: "Everyone is at liberty to gather news; and the fact that one has greater facilities ... or that mere incorporation has been granted a company for the purpose of gathering news, does not . . . give the state the right to regulate what before incorporation was but a natural right...