Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port on South America's west coast. Last fortnight, a U.S. contractor (Raymond Concrete Pile Co.) finished two new storage warehouses and a 1,057-ft. wharf extension, which increased total berthing space to 3,432 lineal ft. Last week, the Colombian government signed a new, $4 million contract with the same company for 1,000 more feet of wharf, two more warehouses, two railway stations, a new coaling station...
Errol Flynn, a somewhat pouchy 38, tied himself to a 15-year, uncancelable Warner Brothers contract. Terms: one picture a year for an annual $250,000-but he could be required to spend as much as 14 weeks a year at work...
Local 49's secretary, William Mirise, found a way. First, the union made proposals on wages & hours, and they were officially ignored. Then the union's proposals, including a $10-a-week raise for daytime work, were put into effect by the three papers. No contract was signed, no closed shop "conditions of employment" were posted. Yet the closed shop was preserved, in effect, for any printer asking for a composing-room job will be referred to the union for a recommendation. Thus the issue that has caused strikes in Chicago and other cities was neatly evaded...
Disc Record Company has asked the Band for a set of six marches, while Capitol is mainly interested in combination work with Glee Clubs. If a contract is arranged, either firm would pay regular royalties for the records...
...piety and craftsmanship. It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age in which Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more...