Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your football article, "Frenzy in Atlanta," in TIME, Oct. 25, you state that the $15,000-a-year salary of the University of Texas' Coach Dana N. Bible is twice that of the university's president. While this was true at the time Coach Bible's contract was signed last winter, the Texas Legislature shortly authorized the Board of Regents for the University to increase the President's salary to a maximum...
Speaking for C.I.O. was Philip Murray, 52, calm, suave chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. He it was who negotiated the details of C.I.O.'s contract with U. S. Steel Corp. A Scot from Lanark, his opponent in those negotiations was another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
Marching back to work with the rest, Charles Hollinshead, president of the U. A. W. local, declared that the Douglas plan was not far from a yellow-dog contract, under which employes promise not to unionize. Said he: "I have been advised such pledges aren't worth the paper they are printed...
...Colossal is being ruined by 1) its ace director (Alan Mowbray), a Russian who wants to send to Switzerland for edelweiss for his Alpine shots, although the edelweiss will not be visible in the blizzard scene for which it is wanted; 2) Cheri (Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt the studios and buy up control...
...staffs paid by Buick to assist and instruct dealers in every way possible. For dealers are private capitalists, not employes. The average Buick dealer is an 85-car-a-year man. Starting out as such, a prospective dealer would have to show Buick, before he could get a contract, that he has $12,325, or $145 per car, in cash, a building owned or rented, a sales force, a service staff and a lot for used cars. Employes would total between twelve and 20. The used car lot is vital because when he has sold 85 new cars he will...