Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto's Financial Post, Sports Scribe Ronald Williams called them "shamateurs." The Canadian Rugby Union insisted they were amateurs. The Dominion's Revenue Department, which defines an amateur as a player "not signed to a professional contract," accepted the C.R.U.'s ruling. Result: big-time rugby teams will not have to pay the 20% federal amusement...
Raised Brows. Under the contract Jones would drill 100 wells. He will furnish the machinery and workers, and foot the bill for current operations. The Mexican Government will reimburse Jones in Mexican Government bonds for all expenses plus 10%. To enable Jones to resell the bonds in the U.S. market, they will be convertible into oil at a preferential price...
Sued: the Rev. Dr. Guy Emery Shipler and The Churchman magazine (editor: Dr. Shipler); for $105,000, by a publicity firm which charged breach of contract. Complaint: the firm never got the commissions due it for plugging a campaign to promote good will among religious and racial groups. Further complaint: Campaigner Shipler demanded the firing of one publicity worker "on religious grounds...
Sole indoor heated garage with a few vacancies remaining on Sunday was the Continental Annex, which opened on the first of the month at 40 Boylston Street and accommodates 325 vehicles. Manager Vincent A. Connors gets $25 a month for reservation, on a nine month contract basis...
Similar rates on an eight month contract are charged by the Cambridge Garage at less accessible 128 Mt. Auburn Street, but they are completely filled, along with the Gulf Oil Station opposite the Freshman Union, the Crimson Garage opposite Kirkland House on Boylston Street, and S. H. McCartney's underground chute on Brattle Square...