Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contact Montevideo, the agents held off further bids. At 5:20, they were shocked to hear that the lowest bidder, with a last minute offer of $27.55, was an Argentine firm. When they again lowered their bid to $27.50 the next morning, the Uruguayans were told that the contract had been awarded...
Mayonnaise on Pears. In 1938, the Trapps arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
With the Ford contract on a day-to-day basis, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther insisted that only a surrender by Ford could avert a strike; "We are prepared," cried Reuther, "to use all the weapons possessed by free labor in America." The steel workers talked just as tough, but Big Steel's tight-lipped Ben Fairless showed no signs of yielding. Snapped he last week: "There is no sound or proper justification for . . . a wage increase at this time...
Basso Ezio Pinza, a Broadway matinee idol at 57 (in South Pacific), made a new conquest. He signed a three-year $500,000 contract with MGM, starting next June and giving him a chance to star in both musicals and straight dramatic movies...
Preaching Was Necessary. For an idealist of 21, there was nothing particularly unusual about his decision except that he acted upon it. For Albert Schweitzer, the resolution was a binding contract with himself. Without telling anyone of his decision, he set out upon such a decade of activity as would have done credit to an ordinary man's lifetime...