Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tallulah's contract gives her more than money: there are special riders to make sure that she runs the show. She gets the right to pass on the hiring of the play's directors, players, company manager, stage manager, pressagent and costumer. One clause commits the management to give her footlights, which have been going out of fashion on the New York stage. Tallulah insists on them because they offset overhead lights that throw unflattering shadows...
...movies had begun to talk, and Tallulah returned to the U.S. to get a word in. Under a $100,000 Paramount contract, she played bad girls redeemed by the love of a good man in a series of pictures with titles that now sound like perfumes ( Tarnished Lady, My Sin, Faithless). The pictures gave off a bad scent, and Paramount dropped her option. Her movie career was a failure until Alfred Hitchcock cast her in Lifeboat (1944), which won the New York film critics' award for the best actress' performance of the year. Her only movie since...
...scheduled international airlines last week flew a brash, tough newcomer. Transocean Air Lines, Inc., whose home field is Oakland, Calif., made a deal with Venezuela to operate a twice-a-week service between Caracas and Rome. Transocean was no pinfeathered newcomer to flying; it is already the biggest contract carrier in the world. More remarkable, in the money-losing flying business, it has made money ever since it started 2½ years ago. To do so, it has become a jack of all airline trades and a master of several. Some of its deals...
...Nelson, 41, a brawny airman who flew United Air Lines planes for twelve years. Nelson, an imaginative Minnesotan who writes short stories in his spare time, says: "You don't just sit there and fly. You think." Flying for United, Nelson thought the airlines were overlooking too much contract business. After the war (in which he served as civilian pilot in the Air Transport Command), he and 14 other pilots rented twelve surplus Army planes and later raised $140,000 to form Transocean. Nelson still spends most of his time piloting Transocean planes (his wife, a former United...
...Peoria Journal, quoting a telegram from Dr. Gallup ("This is the kind of a close election that happens once in a generation"), retorted: ". . . The Gallup poll, had it been properly evaluated, should have told us it was going to be such an election." It canceled its contract to run the Gallup poll; so did the Nashville Tennessean, the St. Louis Globe Democrat and others...