Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain, as in Russia, any strike is illegal), the sit-downers were summarily fired. In addition, the government-run labor syndicate cut off their unemployment benefits and wiped out their seniority rights...
Ghostly survivals of Mussolini's "Second Roman Empire" still exist-the Bureau for the Colonization of Ethiopia, the Imperial African Transport Commission, the Commission for Control of Albanian Banks, etc. Under a decree of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1819, deriving from a contract made in 1594, the government still ceremoniously pays Naples $21 every year for the upkeep of military orphans. It still advertises old scholarships that pay 16?^ a year to the winner-even though it now costs 32?^ to apply. In the Rome recorder's office; all documents are still laboriously transcribed...
...after the Met (Milan's La Scala is not likely to hire a non-Italian boss), gossip that Vienna-born Manager Bing was about to leave has persistently cropped up. Last week the Met's directors announced that Bing has been signed to a new five-year contract, and that the Opera was reserving the option of signing him for two years after that...
...contract, longest in the Met's history, will keep Bing in New York (at a "substantially improved" salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne...
...into $84 million worth of docks, oil rigs and seaborne platforms around the world. Consolidated Edison built one into Manhattan's East River to receive 750 tons of coal per hour for generating electricity. Now De Long is at werk with five other companies on a $21 million contract to lay a five-mile-long sewer outfall into the Pacific off Los Angeles. And the success to date is only a starter. The Coast Guard wants prices on De Long platforms to replace 25 antiquated lightships off U.S. coasts. Another strong possibility: De Long platforms as offshore launching pads...