Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Browne's Willie Bioff appeared in Hollywood, and soon they were mighty figures in cinema. In 1936, Mr. Browne in Manhattan worked out a deal with the Hays office whereby I. A. T. S. E. won a closed-shop bargaining contract for its Hollywood technicians, absorbed and squelched other unions and within 18 months acquired 12,000 members. Last year Willie Bioff admitted (to a grand jury) that after this bargain was struck, he received $100,000 as a loan from a prominent producer.* Willie Bioff, receiving a year's salary and effusive thanks from Mr. Browne...
...part of this sorry fiscal plight Fair officials blame labor. They made a deal with A. F. of L.'s New York Building & Construction Trades Council to employ only union labor. The contract called for no work stoppage because of jurisdictional disputes between local unions. But work did stop while unions haggled over which should pull what cable, etc. Construction was slowed up and in the closing rush to complete the Fair on schedule, overtime charges ate into the budget. World's Fair officials maintain labor disputes raised Fair costs about $2,000,000, cost exhibitors and concessionaires...
...with costs -about $30,000 a week at the Aquacade-and Billy says he is clearing from the Aquacade after expenses as much as $80,000 a week. Although the Fair takes a cut ranging from 8% to 25% of gross receipts from amusement concessions, under Rose's contract his payments did not begin until he had recouped $160,000 he spent to roof the Marine Amphitheatre and build a swimming pool (his total Aquacade investment...
...finding the voyage dull, set the radio crackling. By the time the Manhattan docked and Mr. Brundage had made good his threat, factions in the athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected. In her suitcase she had a $1,000-a-week theatre contract contingent on her winning another championship. Then she got off the boat to find herself besieged with theatre offers, among them one from Loew's State promising $3,500 a week...
...month season, live like Hollywood stars in Norway's whaling capital, Sandefjord. For the business depends on their art, finding whales and killing them. Two years ago Germany (world's biggest whale-oil user) signed Harpooner Lars Andersen, Norway's ace gunner, to a three-year contract at a reputed salary of around $125,000 a season...