Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract expires, and they can threaten to strike again...
...Colby decided to move to a hillside spot just outside Waterville, Me. The college had a new president, Franklin Winslow Johnson, a square-jawed Colby graduate, who had written a clause into his contract declaring that he would not have to raise funds. But he spent most of the next 13 years doing just that. (Notable catch: $200,000 from the Saturday Evening Post's George Horace Lorimer '98.) By 1942, when Johnson retired, the first of Colby's new Georgian buildings blossomed amid the trailing arbutus on Mayflower Hill...
...Luckman spotted him in a Broadway musical, offered to sponsor him on the air if he would tone down his smart-alecky manner. Hope refused. But after he had flopped with another sponsor, he meekly went back to see Luckman. Now Hope is signed to a ten-year Pepsodent contract at $20,000 a week (Hope's net after paying off the rest of the show: about...
Rousseau: The Social Contract...
Some of the Great Books are hard to get, or expensive. The university has printed 50? paperbound editions of such titles as Rousseau's Social Contract...