Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Caesar and NBC split last week, it was the comedian who forced it. The network wanted to put him into four or five spectaculars next season. Unwilling to settle for anything less than his full schedule, Caesar invoked a loophole to cancel the NBC contract that guaranteed him $100,000 a year for another seven years...
...Reaction made the first 350-lb. thrust engine for World War II's experimental Gorgon flying bomb, built the liquid fuel engines for Bell's X-1 series rocket planes. Currently, Reaction is at work on a rocket booster for a U.S. Air Force plane, has a contract to produce rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which is scheduled to fly at altitudes of up to 100 miles and speeds of 5,000 m.p.h. Reaction...
...years, the name Boeing has been synonymous with big bombers, from World War II's 6-17 to today's 650-m.p.h. B-52. Last week Boeing won a $7,109,195 Air Force production contract-and the promise of more-for a new aircraft calculated to give any bomber crewman the shakes. The craft: Boeing's deadly Bomarc guided missile, whose mission is to knock down atom-bomb-carrying planes like Boeing...
...Contract negotiations between Radcliffe and the Building Service local were delayed until the UMW dropped its attempt to organize the College's maintenance workers, and have not yet been resumed...
...boys gazing blankly at books, of people merely standing around, of more boys gazing at books. These perhaps represent the tedium which the editors of 321 seem to find most characteristic of Harvard. But one wonders why it must go on for so many pages. Perhaps there is a contract, or a tradition, that annuals must be a certain number of pages no matter what. This one has 280, so it's probably better than most...