Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...
...Lassie's bosses are getting plenty of biscuits. The Red Heart Dog Food show brings Owner-Trainer Rudd Weatherwax at least $500 a week. As for MGM, which holds the collie's movie contract, the broadcasts are helping to make their cinemutt the most celebrated dog since Cerberus...
Although the committee had not last night signed a contract with an orchestra, Fuller stated that they were trying to get Ken Reeves, who has played at the College several times...
...even included employers. He had found it advisable, in the case of small companies with only two partners, to make one partner join the union. Then he would "bargain" for the union with the other partner. In the face of this power, John McCauley, Brooklyn potato wholesaler, signed his contract without looking at it. "The union said everyone else was signing...
...Muddle. When Ernest R. Breech became the executive vice president of Ford in 1946-and began straightening out its muddled accounting system -he looked hard at the tractor deal. The tractors, said he, were costing Ford more to make than Ferguson paid for them. So Breech ended the contract, as of June 30. Ernie Breech also had a personal interest in tractors. Henry II had lured high-priced men like Breech into the company by giving them stock in a new farm-equipment company, the Dearborn Motors Corp. Thus the personal fortunes of the top Ford officials depended on Ford...