Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's Football Coach Eddie Erdelatz played fast and loose with his new five-year contract just long enough to scout the football factory out at Texas A. & M. Like half a dozen others before him, including Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty and former Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy. Eddie looked over the high-priced proposition and decided to leave. While Eddie went home to make his peace with the Naval Academy, Texas Governor Price Daniel took note of the Aggies' seven incomplete passes at seven successive coaches, and, just like an angry alumnus, demanded a full...
AIRLINE JET PILOT'S pay will climb to $26,800 a year. First U.S. jet-age contract, signed by National Airlines and Air Line Pilots Association, sets figure as top gross pay for senior captain of four-jet Douglas DC-8 (v. $21,600 for piston-engine...
Still Life. In Fall River, Mass., Manuel V. Oliveira Jr., 44, who lost the city's garbage-disposal contract last October, was arrested by federal agents for operating an illegal distillery, admitted he spent $5,500 converting his garbage-cooking plant into a still...
...Look who's doing the squawking, Antonelli and Spahn," he said angrily. "Why Antonelli of the San Francisco Giants lost 18 games last year and he's making excuses should he lose another 18 this season. He's already negotiating for next year's contract...
...Force's area-defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental...