Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is another still uncertain element in the offer. In the past, the Corporation has virtually never given any indication of its building plans until the last contract is signed and work is ready to get under way. In announcing its "offer" to the MTA the University was taking a calculated risk that it could sell the public on the virtues of taking over the land. Whether this was good strategy remains to be seen...
...biggest say over what wages the steel industry will-or will not-pay in its new steel contract is Roger Miles Blough (rhymes with now), 55, the tough-minded chairman of U.S. Steel. Blough, who sternly calls for "renewal of the present contract with no rise in wage rates for one year," has the sinewy build (6 ft., 175 Ibs.) and face of a steel puddler. But he is not cast in the steelmaker's bluff, up-from-the-mills mold. He is an "outside man," a lawyer who got to the top by applying his logician...
Japan's fast-growing electronics industry scored a notable success. Under a threeyear, $8,000,000 contract, Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co. began turning out upward of 75,000 transistor radios, 800,000 transistors, and 1,000,000 vacuum tubes annually for International General Electric, to be resold under the I.G.E. name in Europe, Asia and Africa. I.G.E. was the second major U.S. electronics company to decide to make a deal this year with the Japanese. In April Motorola put on sale in the U.S. a $29.95 shirt-pocket-size transistor radio with most of its parts made in Japan...
...showfolk, the shape of success may be a name in lights, a signature on a contract, a kind review. In the case of a witty Italian golf pro named Guido Panzini, it was a phone call from the U.S. Immigration Service. "We've been watching the Jack Paar Show," an immigration official told NBC. "Where can we find this guy Panzini? We've got no record of his port of entry...
...Russia, another 28 in world capitals. The paper controls a sanitarium, five Moscow apartment buildings, a secondary school, a school for printers, and the Pravda House of Culture. Its mammoth printing plant-49 Linotypes, 5,000 employes-harvests a handsome profit by printing 20 other newspapers and magazines on contract...