Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gathering in a series of meetings at Columbia University this summer, members of the science departments of nine universities, including Harvard, are devising a contract for an Army subsidized atomic research program...
...When I was here playing concert violin I was fully qualified to conduct in the Hollywood Bowl. . . . But I couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands of a woodchopper and yet people think he is a great pianist. They really don't go to hear Iturbi...
...Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...
...Navy has hopes of harnessing atomic power for ship propulsion. Announcement of the signing of a $103,000 contract-to study the possibilities at St. Louis' Washington University-battened down the Navy's huge atomic-energy research program...
Like other chains, ABC has been hit recently by contract cancellations (TIME, May 27). But Ed Noble thinks the "hysteria" is now over. Of his Noble experiment in radio he quipped: "I've had the damndest lot of headaches, and damndest lot of fun, I've ever...