Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requested a hearing during the Senate Commerce Committee's pro forma session on the nomination. Kefauver, aiming to keep the home folks happy on a hot local issue, contends that Strauss violated federal law five years ago by leading the AEC into an ill-starred private-power contract that boomeranged into the Dixon-Yates controversy. Kefauver's hopes of heading off Senate approval of Strauss are slim: not even so staunch a Strauss foe as New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson is much disturbed by his selection as Commerce Secretary...
...after a tour in the administrative branch in Materiel, he took a master's degree (cum laude) at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, worked on Air Force logistics in World War II, later set up the division responsible for postwar production cutbacks and contract terminations. By 1946 he was the Air Force's first comptroller; he took command of the Air Materiel Command...
...that Bonnard could not have been a receiver of his own paintings, had faked the will only to facilitate matters. The even higher Court of Cassation set aside this decision and reaffirmed the basic law, ruling that an artist's work-unless he draws up a special marriage contract-belongs also to his wife...
...workers around La Scala wore paper hats made of discarded musical scores. Giovanni Ricordi investigated, found that valuable scores and orchestra parts were stacked high in La Scala's cellar. He began to buy up some of the scores, set himself up as a copyist, got a contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back to the composers. In 1839 he shrewdly bought the rights to the new opera Oberto from an unknown provincial composer named...
...Pulitzer family's Post-Dispatch. The P-D will move bodily out of its smaller quarters (built in 1917, added to in 1941) into the Globe building; the Globe will lease new office space elsewhere. The P-D will print all editions of the Globe on contract, thereby follow the national trend (Chicago, Chattanooga), dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. The Globe will abandon its Sunday paper, print a Saturday morning weekend edition with Sunday supplements, sell it on Saturday and Sunday for 10? v. 20? for the Sunday...