Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recalls Miller, "so I told him to make 'a record." "I can't sing," said Hunter. "I don't care," Miller assured him. "You can sneeze and it'll sell." When they got ashore, Miller called Dot Records and set up a recording contract for the actor. Hunter cut a disk called Young Love (TIME, March 25), and Miller started playing it before release. Crows the jockey: "In Chicago alone, it sold 250,000 in the first three weeks. Now, nationally...
...stock (87½%) and 24,500 shares (49%) of Ramo-Wooldridge's common stock, the remainder of which the two scientists kept for themselves and future staffers, Thompson put an initial $400,000 into the baby corporation. Within a week R-W got its first Air Force study contract for a secret project, quickly picked up more such contracts. Three months later R-W was in the black...
...182Hycon-Eastern was started two years ago in Boston by M.I.T. Professors J. R. Zacharias and J. B. Wiesner as a consultant firm in long-range microwave communications. Now Hycon-Eastern is a contractor as well, has a $14 million contract to build a complete radio, telephone and TV communications network for Libya, is surveying a similar job in Thailand, dickering for contracts in Iran and the French Cameroons. The company has a crystal lattice filter for radios that will handle much higher frequencies at one-thousandth the cost of previous crystal lattice filters, has also developed an electronic time...
...help you to the right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...
BIGGEST CONSTRUCTION contract ever awarded to a single company by Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is headed towards Louis Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott for Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River in Arizona. Company submitted low bid of $108 million for dam, which will be 700 ft. high and 1,400 ft. long, generate...