Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dressing room. Fired or not, both Judy and irate Ben Maksik had had enough. Claiming that he had advanced her $40,000 (not so, said Judy) for her scheduled 3½ week act at $25,000 a week, Maksik argued that his star had reneged on her contract, rushed in Singer Denise Darcel as a replacement. Holed up at a Park Avenue hotel, Judy admittedly broke, was seen dancing with Husband-Manager Sid Luft, whom she is suing for divorce, at expensive Manhattan night spots. Then came the law. After she failed to appear at a hearing...
...time and money by bargaining for them. The mammoth steel industry practices a highly useful form of industrywide bargaining, though it boggles at any formal association of companies. After a bad strike in 1946, U.S. Steel Corp. sat down in 1947 with the union and hammered out a contract setting a pattern that the rest of the industry has since followed. In effect, U.S. Steel, biggest and toughest in the industry, negotiates on an industry-wide basis for most of the 22 integrated steel companies; before granting union demands, Steel takes care to consider its colleagues, who in turn back...
...sliding sales, and in 1956, for the first time in its history, the company showed a loss. Last fall Perlstein got Lachner's resignation, took over as president as well as chairman, began reversing many Lachner policies. One new policy suited Lachner. Perlstein insisted on a severance contract providing Lachner with more than $3,000 a month through 1961, so long as he makes no criticisms of the Pabst firm or its officers during that time. So far, Lachner has kept prudently...
Persuaded by Crosby, the Army gave Thiokol a $250,000 development contract in 1947. By 1953 Thiokol had produced solid-fuel engines, i.e., basically cylinders packed with the fuel, for the first full-scale Army test missiles. When the Army successfully launched four of them-proving that solid fuels worked-contracts flowed into Thiokol. Crosby's scientists turned out the first-and second-stage engines for the Farside rocket project, won the contracts to produce the propulsion systems of the Air Force's air-to-air Falcon and the Army's antiaircraft Nike-Hercules, surface...
...occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there never was anything for you to fight for"; resists until one day, in flight before the American...