Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standard models but adding material and frills here & there. Somewhat apprehensively, they watched the master of haute couture, John L. Lewis, get to work. As John L.'s underlings sat down with Interior Secretary ''Cap" Krug's underlings to haggle over a new coal contract, it was apparent that John L. had a little number of his own in mind. John L. was putting the wage style accent on a reduction of hours. He was wangling to get the miners as much take-home pay for 45 hours as they now get for 54 hours. John...
Those who know John L.'s strategy best credited him with another smart play. The old contract had a clause providing that once wage discussions were begun, the contract could be voided after 15 days of negotiations. Thus John L. could legally strike and, in effect, eventually get a new contract...
...earned a million dollars at 30. Unlike most jockeys, he has hung on to a lot of it. In his 14 years of racing, he has once been ruled off all tracks for a year for rough riding. This summer he decided to take life easier. He quit as contract rider for the famed Greentree Stable, now sleeps until 9 a.m. instead of rolling out at dawn to gallop horses. His only flaw as a jockey: he sometimes tries to ride cheap horses as if they were stakes horses, confidently holding them back for a spurt that...
Elliot's detractors say he had a head start. His father is program director of WCAU, the CBS station in Philadelphia, and got the kids radio time. CBS also owns Columbia Records, and the Lawrence band has snared a profitable recording contract. But even allowing for a starting push, Lawrence's band is doing well on its own. Their college dates were paying as high as $3,000 a night and their first record, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Strange Love, has been a steady seller for two months...
...Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank panels and a postscript : "No grounds for libel here...