Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs, but nobody has given him a contract...
...Treasury will pay. Soon Father Maguire was able to announce a basis for peace at Green Mountain. A. F. of L. got the equivalent of a closed shop for its unions. Contractor Warner got assurance that he can resume work, catch up on his $4,000,000 contract. Back to Chicago went Father Maguire with much to tell his friend the Bishop...
...profit out of Pepsi-Cola by boosting the price of sugar (considerably more of it goes into its double-sized bottle than into a bottle of Coca-Cola). But it will have to be a long war. Last month, with a year's supply on hand or under contract, Pepsi-Cola extended its war hedge, contracted for a full three-year supply. Meanwhile, there has been no indication that Loft's restaurant chain has ceased to lose money. But, with Loft stock selling as high as 16 5/8 even in last week's war-depressed market, Phoenix...
...Ceiling Zero) was sued for $49,954 (10% of his earnings for the past two years and of his hypothetical earnings for the next two) by the high-powered talent agency of Myron Selznick & Co., which claimed that it got Producer Brown his $2,250-a-week-and-up contract with 20th Century-Fox. Ordinarily for a talent agent to sue a producer would be comparable to a camp follower giving a general the hotfoot. Last week's suit was one more proof that the hotfoot is Agent Myron Selznick's specialty...
...Last year Hollywood gasped when 20th Century-Fox's President Joseph M. Schenck, exasperated with Selznick's demands for Loretta Young, ordered him off the Fox lot. So far, the only person who has caught Myron Selznick napping is his friend and client, Carole Lombard. Renewing her contract with him recently, Cinemactress Lombard had printed a duplicate contract under which Selznick agreed to pay her 10% of his earnings, tricked him into signing it, jokingly demanded an accounting...