Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...management of University Dining Halls estimates that, in the event of an optional contract system, 55% of all Dining Hall patrons will have to pay $14 a week; 35% $12; and 10% $10. From these figures one can readily compute that the management reckons on an average toll of $12.90 a week, or an increase of $6.95 over resent rates...
...presumption that fewer meals will be served is not, according toe Dining Hall officials, correct. They estimate, in fact, that under a contract system the average number of meals per week each man will eat will be 17 and on half--not 16. This figure is based on a pre-war contract system where out of 100 men, 55 ate 21 meals each week, 35 ate 14, and 10 ate 10. (The editorial in question erroneously stated that 10 percent would eat 7 meals, at a charge of $10, instead of 10 meals). The total number of meals...
Rumor has it, moreover, that Walz's contract stipulates at least one win over Harvard if he wants a renewal. Rumor also has it that the aforementioned contract runs out in 1950, and that the coach has become rather fond of New Haven...
This week, Bermudez, still trying to get U.S. know-how to help his inefficient monopoly, landed a bigger fish. He signed a contract with a new company, the Mexican American Independent Co., giving it a twelve-year concession to drill wells along Mexico's tidelands near Yucatan and elsewhere. The new company was formed when Edwin W. Pauley, California oilman and good friend of President Truman, joined up with Ralph K. Davies. of the American Independent Oil Co. (TIME, Sept. 1, 1947) and Samuel B. Mosher of California's Signal Oil & Gas Co. The new Pauley company would...
This was small consolation to airmen or British taxpayers who had paid an estimated $28 to $40 million for the governmental bungling that had caused the flop. Said Avro Managing Director Sir Roy Dobson: "I will have to have a contract written in rock before I will build another civil aircraft. I would like to see the whole lot [of Tudors] swept out and burned so that we can forget this ghastly chapter and start again...