Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another month big labor, in the form of the United Steelworkers of America, will sit down with big business, in the form of U.S. steel company executives, to hammer out a new contract that will not only set the pattern for steel but also for dozens of other industries. As negotiations approach, the two sides are so far apart -and so adamant about it-that they may not be able to get together short of a long strike or a surrender by management, either of which would harm the recovering economy...
...forced students out of bed and into the street. Damages were set at $65,000 by fire marshals, who suspected that the blaze was intentionally started in a closer. Irate students blamed the University for irresponsibility in connection with the fire. Harvard, in turn, announced that it was under contract for the rooms and could take no responsibility for damages to student property in case of fires. The following Monday a second serious blaze arose at Claverly. There was no connection between the two fires-both seemingly intentionally set-the Fire Department officials claimed, but they
Idol Apparent. Last week, peering at the world through the traces of an elegant shiner picked up in the Cambridge fight, Kris signed a contract with Top Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while...
...convinced Alcoa that he would be more valuable in their West Coast office. "I kept thinking," he says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took her back to Washington as his wife. Says Romney: "It was my greatest selling achievement...
...director of the Automotive Council for War Production during World War II, Romney worked up a cooperative system that enabled companies to share one another's production advances. At war's end he performed one of his biggest services by persuading Government officials to cut short cumbersome contract-termination procedures that might have tied up auto plants for months. Instead, automakers began rolling out new cars almost immediately after war's end, thus averting heavy unemployment...