Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Giants' flashy Centerfielder Willie Mays got just what he wanted in his 1957 contract-the same pay as last year ($35,000) plus a promise that his roommate will be his new teammate Jackie Robinson. "I just hope he'll be my roommate all the time," said Willie, "so he'll teach me things." But aged (38 this month) ex-Dodger Robinson abruptly announced that he is retiring from baseball-and sounded as if he meant it. "It was a day-to-day proposition with me all last year," he said. "I'm grateful...
...record $3.25, the first price hike in more than three years. Next day gasoline followed, with a 1? per gallon increase at the pump. As a result of a $40 million wage increase that went into effect Jan. 1 as part of last summer's steel contract, and the Government's refusal to approve fast tax write-offs for expansion, the steel industry posted price increases ranging from 1% on hot rolled strip to 5% on plate. In the textile industry, synthetic yarns went up as much as 25? per lb. for nylon, 11? for dacron, bringing immediate...
Because Coastal's gas-gathering contract was due to run out by Dec. 31 unless FPC approved the pipeline plan, FPC hustled through its approval in record time, without first passing on gas rates and financing plans, which should be completed by the end of January. By April, Murchison's group hopes to start laying pipe, plans to have the project in full operation within two years. It should prove a bonanza to all. The two lines figure to gross close to $30 million a year from the transportation and resale of gas. And since Murchison...
While the Corporation decided to take up the last two years of Jordan's contract at about $12,500 per year, it announced no action on his successor. No information was available on when or how it would choose, but one member of the Faculty Committee said that a choice would be announced in less time than it took to pick Jordan as Art Valpey's successor...
Williams, who is also golf coach here, is believed likely to be offered a one-year contract. Like Jordan, he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a back in the late twenties, and he has also served as backfield coach at Florida, Temple, and Pitt...