Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chamberlain, the 7-ft.-2-in. lapsed amateur from the University of Kansas (TIME, June 2) looked over the basketball season ahead and announced a change of plans. Rather than gamble on taking his own team on tour, Wilt decided on a sure thing. He signed a one-year contract with those skillful showboaters, the Harlem Globetrotters...
...industry leader in raising prices, does not intend to hike its prices July 1 but will do so eventually. Steelmen are awaiting an announcement this week of the Consumer Price Index to tell them how great a cost-of-living increase they will have to add to their contract wage boosts...
Last week Raytheon won a $6,000,000 contract for the electronic controls of the Navy's new surface-to-air Tartar missile, announced a $6,000,000 contract for development of a radically new sonar system for atomic submarines. To manufacture top-secret communications equipment for the Air Force, the firm is shopping around for a huge new factory that will add one-sixth more capacity to its plants, which are scattered from Massachusetts to California...
Just as '58 returned from its junior year Christmas vacation, one startling change was made as Lloyd Jordan's contract was bought up by the University. Nobody ever made it very explicit as to why Jordan was fired, but the two main interpretations were that he sounded off against Ivy code admissions regulations, and that his teams did not win. The University said he was fired as a "poor teacher," but did not define what a good teacher...
While the union went on working without a contract, thus losing for good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog...