Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recorded (for RCA Victor) has sold more than 200,000 copies, and one (Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean) became the first LP by a single performer to sell more than a million, a record since matched only by Elvis Presley. Belafonte's $700,000, five-year contract with the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas guarantees him $140,000 for a minimum of four weeks a year, and he has received as much as $200,000 for appearing in a movie (Island in the Sun). This week he starts filming his own picture, Odds Against Tomorrow, in which...
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 27--David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, talked with enthusiasm today about workers spending less time in mills. But he said the USW policy makers must decide if reduced work schedules will be an issue in forthcoming contract negotiations with the basic steel firms...
...when production zoomed to 14.5 million tons a year. For another, Harlan's miners, members of the U.M.W. for the past 18 years, are in a sense victims of other miners' prosperity. Rising labor costs (Harlan operators have so far refused to sign a new U.M.W. contract under which miners would get $14.25 a day to enter a mine, 76? more per ton to load coal) have spurred mine owners to mechanize. But Harlan's shallow (32 in. to 48 in.) seams make mechanization impractical. A third reason: rail costs from the heart of the Appalachian soft...
...Soviet success in Iraq demonstrates, the Communists often benefit even more than the Germans from Mideastern hatred for the "imperialist powers." Communist states are also prepared to underwrite prestigious but unprofitable deals. In Cairo last summer, when a West German firm desperately sought to win an electrical construction contract away from the East Germans, the East German representative impatiently burst out: "Gentlemen, let's stop this nonsense. I have orders from my home office to undercut any Western price-even if I have to go to practically zero...
...proposal containing plans for such an instrument was presented to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration last October, and the researchers are awaiting a contract to proceed with actual construction...