Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months the I.T.U. has been engaged in a bitter dispute with ten New York papers* on the subject of bogus. Negotiating for a new contract, the union committee has abandoned its showcase demands, e.g., a $30 weekly pay boost for a 30-hour week, settled for management's $7 offer, spread over two years. But to its bogus featherbed the I.T.U. clings for dear life...
...Ford, 39, and his burbling, bouncy wife, Mimi Hines, 25, was the main attraction at the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week. Next, they are heading for Los Angeles' Coconut Grove, a stint on the BBC in London and a $3,500-a-week contract with the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Less than two years ago they were hitting the tank towns for $375 a week. Now they are one of the best-paid attractions in the business-and one of the most appallingly corny acts ever to hit the big time...
...words carried additional impact because of their timing, since contract negotiations began today in New York. The results, the President told a news conference, will be felt by all industry and all the people...
SHILLELAGH MISSILE, Army's newest-for close-in fighting, like its Irish counterpart-will be developed by Ford Motor Co. subsidiary, Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., under contract worth $23 million. Solid-fuel, surface-to-surface Shillelagh will be operational around...
...Industries Corp. circulated an ambitious (3 Ibs.) blueprint for building a major aluminum industry from Ghana's two abundant, untapped resources: red bauxite (aluminum ore) and cheap water power. So enthusiastic was Ghana that it started work immediately on the $600 million project. To Kaiser went the first contract-$3,000,000 for site-clearing and design work...