Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...welfare fund was settled in principle; all "that remained was to write the ticket, which the Hon. John Lewis and Mr. O'Neill would proceed to do. The President wanted the contract written in not more than 'five days. Did Lewis think that was possible...
...When I go out I walk in blackish snow. . . . Even in . . . my apartment a hostile, deaf, mysterious Nature assails me. I seem to be camping in the heart of a jungle swarming with insects. . . . There are the roaches that run through my kitchen, the elevators that make my heart contract...
...with a head full of Varga girls might not have much time for reading contracts. Peru-born Alberto Vargas, slight, black-mustached creator of Esquire's pin-up girls, claims that he signed his without reading it. He further claims that his trusted employer said, "This is one contract you can sign with your eyes closed...
According to Artist Vargas, he thought the deal was $18,000 annually for 26 Varga girls a year. The contract actually called for one Varga girl a week for ten years, at $12,000 a year. That was a "physical impossibility," said Vargas-the girls must first be born in the mind, "then they have to come from my heart and out through my hand...
Marie MacDonald, reasonably nicknamed "The Body," won a fight to cancel her contract with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg, promptly said she was shucking the nickname, would "get by hereafter on my ability...