Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were to have paid K-F for the stock, Masterson had filed suit in Detroit to prevent the stock from being sold, charging that the company had rigged the price of its stock and that the underwriters would make an excessive profit on it. Fortunately for Otis & Co., its contract with K-F provided that such a suit would nullify the deal...
Four pairs of bridge experts, chosen by their play in College-wide competition, will bid and contract on a nation-wide level this afternoon as Harvard's entry in the annual, intercollegiate bridge tournament...
Barbara Jo Walker (Miss America of 1947), who is engaged to a medical student, turned down a Hollywood contract, explained: "Love is more important...
...states.But Chautauqua really became big business when it hit the road in tents. During the peak year of 1924, Chautauqua visited 12,000 U.S. towns and villages whose leading businessmen had underwritten, willingly or grudgingly, all the expenses (the management got all the profits under the "standard" contract). That year, 30 million people crowded into the big brown tents and it looked as if Chautauqua were going on forever. The following year it went into a slump from which it has never fully recovered...
...hear one neutral European judge say: "Scott shows up the others when she merely skates on one foot in a straight line." The last skater to do that was Norway's brassy Sonja Henie, who in 1936 danced off the Olympic ice into a $1,000,000 Hollywood contract...