Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
...more on his mind than Boyd. A two weeks' work stoppage would drastically reduce the present big 70 million-ton, soft-coal stockpile-a 45 days' supply. With a lot less coal on hand, operators would be more amenable when Lewis presented them with his new contract demands. His present contract expires June...
Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to prevent his name from being attached to a composition which he did not write...
Last fall the detractors won. The symphony's directors offered Netherlands-born Hans Kindler a new contract with one hand and evidently a hint with the other: if he accepted, they might not be able to raise enough money for another season. Kindler chose to resign from the orchestra he had founded and directed for 18 years...
Dark Warehouses and Foggy Waterfronts fail to retrieve this film. Possibly Paramount signed away the soul of "Alies Nick Beal' as part of Milland's contract. If so, good riddance...