Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a 22-day strike, the 1,500 American Airlines pilots won a fat 18-month contract this week. Their settlement ended the worst series of labor dogfights in U.S. airline history. American contracted to put a third junior pilot in jet cockpits, pay him at least $650 a month. The pilots also won pay boosts from a top of $19,220 a year to $22,596 for flying piston-engine DC-78. They will get $28,340 for skippering Boeing 707 jets, which American plans to put into service Jan. 25. The raises are retroactive to August 1957, when...
Objections to a projected contract between MEBAC and the MDC were raised last week by the Group 20 Players, a Wellesley summer theatre organization, which protested against MEBAC's plans to lease the new arts center exclusively to the Cambridge Drama Festival during the summer. Group 20 asked for "equal time to share the ideal site," located on Soldiers Field Road...
...something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the conviction for contempt that grew out of her silence...
GOOSE MISSILE cancellation by the Air Force also ends Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp.'s contract for the J83 jet engine. Cutback will reduce Fairchild's sales by about $56 million in 1959, cause layoffs of 2,000 employees. Said Fairchild President James H. Carmichael: "The company has a rough sky ahead...
...Repertory group will have a permanent company of 15 actors, and its success, according to Gitter, "depends largely on the loyalty and enthusiasm of the individual members. Therefore," he continued, "they are being given a season's contract, guaranteeing them continuous employment and a succession of varied and challenging roles. The 15 were selected from a group of 300 performers we auditioned in New York...