Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strauss and Murray, both brilliant, articulate, strong-willed men, have repeatedly clashed head-on over such issues as 1) the Dixon-Yates contract, which Murray opposed (with Strauss ultimately backing down), 2) Murray's proposal to ban superbomb tests, 3) Murray's contention that the AEC's atomic-power program will languish unless the Government builds commercial-scale power plants to show private industry the way. Yet, for all the differences, tough-minded, liberal Thomas Murray staunchly supported Strauss during the AEC's darkest hour: the commission's vote of no confidence in AEC Consultant...
BIGGEST NATURAL-GAS SALE in U.S. history is stirring up hot price battle. FPC tentatively okayed 20-year contract linking Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. system with huge underwater field (estimated reserves: 1.7 trillion cu. ft.) off Louisiana. But company's customers are howling because Tennessee Gas agreed to pay record price of 22.4? per 1,000 cu. ft., considerably above average rates, and gas users fear it will touch off rise in prices...
...record of the Atomic Energy Committee under the chairmanship of Admiral Lewis L. Strauss has been anything but distinguished. The most publicized mishaps, the Oppenheimer case and the Dixon-Yates contract, have been only surface indications of Strauss' maladministration. Strauss, who has shown little belief in the Eisenhower theory of delegation of authority, has increasingly preempted the powers of the AEC to himself...
However, there is no "guaranteeing," Snegireff asserted, that a non-smoker will not contract lung cancer. But the results of a poll of physicians by the School of Public Health showed that the largest group of non-smokers are the thoracic surgeons, "who see at close range the ravage wrought by lung cancer...
...minority stockholder (49-4%), sharp little Photographer Milton H. Greene. The agenda: President Monroe merely wished to elect a new board, and in the process to dump Vice President Greene. In 1954 Marilyn, lonely and self-exiled from Hollywood, was befriended by enterprising Promoter Greene. M.M.P.'s contract called for a pooling of their talents and earnings for a period of seven years...