Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classrooms, textbooks are anywhere from one to 20 years behind the times. Gratified were many secondary educators, therefore, when last spring an able pamphlet on Steel, vivid in text and photographs, was rushed to students almost at the hour when U. S. Steel historically signed a labor contract with C. I. O. As President Roosevelt was being elected for a second term and preparing to unlimber his Supreme Court reorganization plan, an equally vivid exposition of Our Constitution and the Court was appropriately made available. Both pamphlets were issues of Building America, "a photographic magazine of modern problems," pioneer publication...
...conductor? These questions may well have been pondered by R. C. A. stockholders last January when their pudgy President David Sarnoff sent envoys to Milan to induce Maestro Arturo Toscanini to conduct ten broadcasts with the projected NBC Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Feb. 15). Conductor Toscanini asked and got a contract for $4,000 per broadcast, probably the highest price ever paid a conductor. At the behest of plump, practical Signora Toscanini, it was also stipulated that NBC should buy the Maestro a round-trip ticket from Italy to the U. S. and pay the income taxes...
...While Heldentenor Carl Hartmann continued to win moderate favor as Tannhäuser and Tristan (Flagstad was the Isolde), the remainder of the debutant crop to date caused little excitement. Zinka Milanov (née Kunc), whose three-year contract had been promised only after she had agreed to learn three Italian roles and reduce 25 Ib. in three months, made her U. S. debut in II Trovatore (Leonore). Nicola Moscona, Greek basso, attracted the whole Greek colony to his Ramfis (Aïda). Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini...
Gained by the Guild was a contract guaranteeing that of the 206 strikers, 166 will be rehired, the other 40 fired, given 20 weeks' severance pay. The Guild had demanded, but did not get, a preferential shop. And the Guild put an awful dent in its treasury supporting the strike at $3,000 a week...
...Airmail rates have been drastically low ever since the notorious air mail contract cancelations of 1934 and the abortive Air Mail Act it produced. Airlines are generally considered a heavily subsidized industry, actually are barely so, since sales of stamps almost equal Post Office payments to the lines ($12,000,000 for domestic lines for the fiscal year...