Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seat, veteran fleshpeddler and music lover, was sore. The singer whose contract he wanted to buy had everything-a real rock 'n' roll talent and a real gone name. But Seat only had $25,000 to offer, and the kid's record contract alone was worth $40,000. So Elvis Presley stayed with Colonel Tom Parker back there in the fall of 1955 (RCA Victor got the record contract), and all Agent Seat could do was to try to latch onto a suitable substitute. He promptly chased down to Memphis after some cornball named Harold Jenkins...
...Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same. Gardner believes, but like a Yankee, "he chose to keep his mouth shut...
...fight was over the I.A.M.'s demand for a new contract containing a fat pay boost. T.W.A. mechanics originally demanded a 49?-per-hour pay hike on a one-year contract, plus changes in T.W.A.'s seniority and supervisory rules. A month ago T.W.A. countered with an offer of 40? per hour over a three-year period, later boosted it to 41? per hour, the level at which the I.A.M. recently settled with Northwest Airlines. But it was not enough for the mechanics. Snapped T.W.A. President Charles Thomas: "The company withdraws the offers it has made...
...radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Accuracy Inc., said the reports, was letting subcontracts for the MOLE's propulsion system ("an atomic engine energized by the molecular disintegration of whatever element it traverses") and its molizing system (a special reverse cone which pulls the dirt...
...Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile, The Eddy Duchin Story, The Sun Also Rises and Witness for the Prosecution. Noted...