Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to Paramount publicity, for 17 weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis of combined salaries involved, was doubtless the most expensive ever staged...
Quins alive. The Star was willing to handle Canadian sales and in July, when the Quins were seven weeks old, it called for bids on the U. S. rights. Newspaper Enterprise Association's $2,050 for six months was top. When that contract expired, NEA and Hearst's King Features Syndicate got together to halt a bidding contest at $10,000. In the spring of 1936, the NEA-Quins contract was renewed at the same figure...
...Twentieth Century-Fox still holds the Quins' contract for feature cinemas, Pathe for newsreels and ''shorts...
...history: John Doe, hit by a taxi, was hospitalized. At once a hospital attendant earned $10 by telephoning the racketeers. In a few minutes their representative appeared. Denied admittance, he proved good faith by paying the patient's bill in advance. He soon got Doe to sign a contract hiring his employer and agreeing to pay him 50% of the money won from a damage suit against the taxi company. Then Doe was transferred to a hospital where the gang had a doctor. X-rays were taken of his leg, retouched to indicate it was broken. The plates...
...hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh proposes a union and draws up a contract, the force splits, the young people supporting the union, the oldsters indifferent...