Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World Series. In 1945, Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place to fourth, then to third last year. The delighted Steamshovels tore up Billy's old contract, gave him an even fatter one (his present salary...
...prepare for a four-to six-months' strike (the last one, in 1947, ran 94 days). "When this strike is finished," he cried, "we will be out of business or they [the shipowners] will be out of business." The shipowners replied that they would never sign a contract with a union whose officers have not signed the Taft-Hartley Act's non-Communist oath-which. Red-liner Bridges has refused...
More Money. Despite its achievements and its obvious value in good will for the U.S., SESP has had its bumps from the economy-minded U.S. Congress. IIAA's appropriation has been halved, and the agency's power to contract with foreign governments limited to one year. Next winter, the new U.S. Congress may wipe out IIAA altogether...
This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
David O. Selznick, who shares Mitchum's contract with RKO, called on the American people for "fair play": ".. . We urgently request the press, the industry and the public to withhold . . . judgment until [the] facts are known...