Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further innovation will be a new contract covering 15 meals per week, giving the student $14 worth of food for $13.30. The price of a contract for 21 meals a week has been lowered 55 cents to $16.95. On this contract, a student will be able to get meals worth...
...Talked generalities in a half-hour chat in Manhattan with United Steelworkers President David McDonald, who dropped by during a recess in the critical contract negotiations with Big Steel...
...After a year of barnstorming with the Harlem Globetrotters, towering (7 ft. 2 in.) Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain,22, two-time All-America at the University of Kansas (1957, 1958), signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His salary-more than $30,000-makes Chamberlain the highest-paid player in N.B.A. history...
Though Raytheon has not put even a model sky station into the air so far, the Air Force is already discussing a preliminary contract. Sky stations could support search radars to watch for aircraft around the curve of the earth. A chain of them acting as microwave repeaters could carry TV programs and telephone conversations across continents and oceans. Fitted with big glass bulbs filled with neon or xenon gas, which glows red or blue when microwaves pass through it, they could serve as stratospheric lighthouses to guide aircraft flying above the clouds...
...Stewardesses. For fiscal 1959, MATS was directed by Congress to spend a minimum of $80 million on contracts to commercial carriers but actually spent only $69 million, 11% of its total budget. Hardest hit by MATS' competitive policy are the small all-cargo airlines, who depend on Government business, are part of the emergency air reserve counted on by the Government for war. Says William Gelfand, contract administrator for the Flying Tiger Line: "We don't say it is MATS' responsibility to keep any of us in business. But if the military is going to compete with...