Word: contract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer ended negotiations which had been going on for almost 100 days. Reuther happily accepted. By all indications, so would Ford workers when they voted on the proposal. By winning peace, Ford had won a lead in his increasingly competitive industry. By winning the contract, Reuther had gained a weapon to use against Chrysler...
Management, for its part, would be saddled with another large fixed charge. As the Ford contract was written, management would have a continuing reason for wanting more, not less, Government-financed, old age insurance...
...entire development, according to the contract, is to be finished by March, but it will probably be done early in January...
...sophomore, Brooklyn-born Wald landed a job as radio columnist for the old New York Graphic on the strength of sample columns written with the help of a CBS office boy. A free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends. Example: no sooner had Paramount...
...production geniuses. Even on a living scale modest for Hollywood bigwigs (a ten-room house without swimming pool or tennis court), he moans that he can save little of it after agents' fees and taxes. Though tied to his handsomely austere wage by an optionless long-term contract that runs through 1951, Wald gets some comfort from recognition. He flirts occasionally with another studio to learn how much he is really worth, and does not object to pressagents trumpeting his praises. Recently, when Jack Warner ordered a publicity blackout on Wald, ostensibly to cut down demands on his prize...