Word: contract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first wife Natalie, now contesting their divorce, still gets screen credit, under her contract, as adviser on all Technicolor pictures...
...their fees. It is usually the model who has to sell herself, tramping in & out of photographers' studios, showing her scrapbook, trying to look like the advertisers' cryptic specifications ("We need the soap and motherhood type"). By great good fortune she may land a movie contract.† But in most cases, she will achieve a glamourous life only in the ads she poses...
...next two seasons Joe Barbao tried to get the Pirates to watch Stan play. A Cardinal scout got there first. Although he was shy about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor...
They contended that the union should not even be allowed to discuss pensions at this time: the contract permitted negotiations to be opened only on wages, and pensions were not wages. (The union countered with a recent federal court decision holding that pensions could be considered part of wages.) As for wages, said...
...agreement would set a fourth-round wage pattern for all industry. The C.I.O. autoworkers, already set to strike against Ford for similar demands, are dragging their feet. So are John L. Lewis' mineworkers, whose contract has expired. All told, more than 1,500,000 unionists are watching to see if it is peace...