Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hard-bitten Walter G. Pippel is Matanuska Valley's real moneymaker. He grossed $ 11,000 in 1936-37 raising cabbages, tomatoes, turnips, potatoes, now grosses $200 a week. When U. S. colony agents insisted that he sign a purchase contract for his farm-with the reservation that the colony farms remain in the cooperative -stubborn Mr. Pippel balked, refused to sign, hawked his produce at Anchorage. Resigning from the cooperative, Pippel went to court. Last August the case of People v. Pippel was settled out of court. Individualist Pippel agreed to vacate his colony farm and start all over...
Like the great artists of renaissance Italy, John Steuart Curry lives on the patronage of States and institutions, paints in peace. His five-year contract with the University of Wisconsin pays him $4,000 a year, carries with it the title "Professor" and the burden of giving an occasional lecture. Still at work in Madison last week on twelve panels for the State Capitol of Kansas Curry called his Oklahoma Land Rush a picture of the same migration Novelist John Steinbeck describes in Grapes of Wrath. Said he: "Civilization went into the Territory 50 years ago on wheels...
Last week Joe Yule, who has done bits in Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...
...same time C. & S. announced that $12,000,000 more would be spent later in plant expansions in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. A day later came another proof that Dave Lilienthal and Wendell Willkie were beginning to work together. TVA and Commonwealth & Southern signed a ten-year contract under which Alabama Power Co. will buy about $100,000 of TVA hydroelectric power a month for distribution over its private transmission lines...
...Michael O'Daniel, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, did not wait for a contest, went to Hollywood last fortnight, landed a Paramount contract (TIME, Aug. 14). His Pappy has still not decided whether to let him take...