Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symphonic Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
...Changes made will be no more than those absolutely necessary for two reasons," Edward Francis, real estate consultant of the Straus Hall office, said yesterday. "First, by this method, we can make the units available at the earliest possible date. In the second place, our contract with the government calls for the return of the area in its present state...
...winding up lengthy negotiations, the U.S. bought the 1946 Cuban crop for $3.67½ per 100 Ibs. f.o.b. Cuba, instead of for the $3.10 it paid last year. Cuba wanted the U.S. to sign a contract for ten years (TIME, Jan. 28). But the U.S., mindful of the potent domestic sugar-beet lobby, signed for only...
...response to a request by several House masters for a 15-meal-a-week board contract for students who do not remain in residence on week-ends, Edward Reynolds, Administrative Vice President of the University, replied in a letter released yesterday that the adoption of this plan is not practical for College Dining Halls...
...University eating at Harvard dining halls are required to sign 21-meal contracts at $10.50 a week, and the food is hardly different enough to create a stampede for select cooking if everyone with weekly contracts were allowed to eat at any of the dining halls. At present, each House or hall has a list of its members, who are checked off as they pass through the chow line. The simplest method would be to allow interhouse slips to be signed for any guest with an eating contract any place in the University, but if Lehman Hall found this created...