Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though Toscanini conducted the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, he never signed a permanent contract. Last permanent full-time conductor was Josef Stransky...
...style, sailed for Spain. An American promoter in Europe,Lew Burston,had been recommended to him as an able manager. Instead of calling on Promoter Burston, Devil Montanez attracted Promoter Burston's attention to himself by winning three fights-all knockouts. Promoter Burston appeared in Barcelona, signed a contract as manager of Devil Montanez...
...ceiling lifted again when Boeing's friend Eddie Hubbard contracted to fly the mail from Seattle to Victoria. Boeing got into non-military aviation by furnishing a flying boat which became "the first U. S. plane in international mail service." Next year the company began to ride high as Boeing snagged an Army contract for 200 pursuit planes. Such jobs kept him thriving until 1927, when he again jumped into commercial aviation with what his competitors considered a suicidally low bid for the first Chicago-San Francisco air mail contract. Starting at scratch, he managed to get his planes...
...American Airways was the first to act. Mindful of early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
Braddock v. Louis. Biggest fight of 1936 was Max Schmeling's surprising knockout of Negro Joe Louis. Biggest reward for Schmeling was a contract with Madison Square Garden to fight Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Biggest drawback in the plan was the fact that Champion Braddock, faced with the necessity of risking his title for the first time since he won it two years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt...