Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor is high-priced in Cambridge. Harvard, one of the two Ivy League schools with a union contract, pays the top wages for kitchen workers, along with Yale. A new contract last year played an important part in the board hike. But, at the same time, Harvard provides less expensive meals than Yale, especially when the policy of seconds is considered. Yalies shell out about $520 for eighteen meals--which, according to Tucker, comes to over $602 for a full 21-meal schedule, and the unfortunate Elis cannot have seconds on meat. Students at Princeton pay $560 yearly...
McCarthy held that because Delany had signed an entry blank he was under obligation to appear. Cleveland officials declared that Delany's "breach of contract" would place him under automatic suspension. Delany defended his withdrawal, saying that he had acted "in good faith." A Shakespeare major in Villanova's graduate school, he gave the pressure of his work as the reason for his action...
Crooner Perry Como, who has made a profession of the easy manner, lifted his eyelids last week long enough to sign the most eye-popping contract in TV history: a $25 million deal with Kraft Foods for 66 one-hour NBC-TV color shows over the next two years, plus another "seven-figure" contract to serve as a Kraft publicity symbol for the next ten years. As producer of his own show, Como will pay expenses-out of the $25 million and keep what is left. As performer, he will go on collecting $1,200,000 yearly from NBC. Said...
Organization Man. Perry was not entirely spoofing when he said he knew nothing about last week's enormous deal. He attended none of the negotiations. Perry is an organization man, operating under contract to Roncom Productions, Inc. (named after eldest son Ronnie, 20, a sophomore at Notre Dame). Roncom is wholly owned by the Como family, but sport-shirted Perry is rarely seen in the outfit's Park Avenue offices. His 33 full-time employees (soon to be expanded to 100) run his affairs, which include a TV-packaging subsidiary (Roncom TV Inc.) and music-publishing firm (Roncom...
...NUCLEAR SUBS have been contracted for by the Navy. Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. will build two under a $49 million contract, N.Y. Shipbuilding two for $45 million. Navy yards will build two more...