Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced that she was considering a divorce...
...your July 29 article on Mary Leona Ennis [who almost became Miss U.S.A.]. Such a rise to fame seems to indicate that even if you cheat, lie and play on the sympathy of your fellow man, you can get on TV, become a nightclub personality and get a Hollywood contract. It was most appropriate that your article was printed under ''Manners & Morals," neither of which was displayed by Mrs. Ennis...
...voiced Max Chester (convictions for extortion, bookmaking, robbery), who walked into the offices of a Brooklyn plumbing supply manufacturer, Paul Claude, one day in 1954. Announced Max Chester: "I am going to unionize your shop." Testified fearful Paul Claude last week: "He wanted $2,000 to give me a contract that I can live with. I said, 'I haven't got $2,000.' He figured out with pencil and paper that a contract I couldn't live with would cost me $12,000. I could save myself $10,000, and I should be very grateful...
Columbia scientists, working on an Air Force contract, dodged around this difficulty by altering the quality of the signal itself. Details of the alteration are still secret. But in effect the scientists added an ingredient to the signal that can be readily identified against background interference picked up by their receiver. "It's a lock and key system," explains Dr. John H. Bose of Columbia's Electronics Research Laboratories. "We know what's locked up in the signal, and our receiver...
...week's end G.M.'s President Harlow H. Curtice had made no public reply other than a terse announcement stating that the company had completed its plane contract "to the satisfaction of the Air Force over two years ago," with an overall profit of 5.4% after taxes-"a reasonable rate of profit and substantially below the rate realized by G.M. on its commercial business." But the GAO still wanted the money back, though it did not say how it proposed...