Word: contract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wriggle in Radius. The new Donegan has been so successful that she has a contract with the Embers (through 1961) that brings her $2,000 a week and calls for two eight-week stints a year. This sort of payoff has drawn her to the attention of Internal Revenue men who argue that her gyrations constitute a cabaret act, that the club ought to pay the 20% entertainment tax rather than the 3% charged for purely instrumental gaiety. "If I had to stop groaning," Dorothy groans, "I'd be out of business." So a compromise was arranged...
WEST GERMAN JET FIGHTER will be Lockheed F-104, ending two-year competition by U.S., French, British, Italian, Swedish planemakers to get Luftwaffe contract. German Defense Ministry will ask Bundestag clearance to buy six to ten planes in U.S. for up to $8,000,000, produce 300 more under license...
...YORK, Nov. 1--The possibility of a strike faded early today as the American Newspaper Guild reached tentative contract agreements with three of the city's seven major dailies and agreed to "stop the clock" in talks with another...
Minus the Good Housekeeping seal of approval, wiry, grey-thatched Herb Mayes, 58, still had some of the seal's benefits. To get rid of him, Deems bought his contract, which ran for 2½ more years at a salary close...
...rise in productivity is vital because it helps offset rising labor costs, a big push behind inflation. So far, productivity is running ahead of 1958 wage hikes; autoworkers settled last month for more moderate terms than in recent years (4% wage rise for Ford). The cost of the new contracts has already been written into 1959 car prices. Said Frederic G. Donner, chairman of General Motors, in Manhattan last week: "I think it's fair to say that the contract, as we have signed it, would not require any further adjustment in prices...