Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head Start. When he got back, Cole was waiting for him with a contract for his song. Capitol made a sneak recording of it, backing Cole's voice with a rich, fluty orchestral accompaniment. Fascinated by its haunting melody (it sounds something like an old Marlene Dietrich special), disc jockeys in three weeks have played it into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature...
...undertook to explain them. To buy its blast furnace and plant from WAA last year, Lone Star had to show firm orders for pig iron. As big, established buyers were skeptical about Lone Star's chances, the company had to rely on small brokers. A typical deal: a contract with one Harry Gale, of Washington, D.C., to deliver 24,000 tons of pig iron at $39 a ton, then the current market price...
...typical was another deal which red-faced Mr. Germany described as a "tremendous donation of the stockholders for the benefit of this woman." The woman is Miss Alice Hansen, 3 5-year-old blonde president of Manhattan's Pittsburgh Steel Mill Co., a brokerage firm. She had a contract with Lone Star to buy 105,000 tons of pig iron at $39 a ton. She had put no cash down, and, said Germany, there was no way Lone Star could have collected if she had failed to make good...
...Contract Still Distant...
...much time will elapse before a new contract is drawn up is a matter of conjecture. A spokesman of Local 8, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFL, has predicted that it will be at least two and a half months, but other observers have set a lower estimate...