Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cement-union strategists began planning last year for this first all-out assault on manufacturers, aiming especially at an industry-wide blanket contract instead of the customary plant-by-plant settlement. In the dusty cement bag dumped on the negotiation tables by the union were demands for a 13?-an-hour increase (to $2.20), a 10% premium for Sunday work, four-week vacations after 30 years service, and a clause forbidding companies to hire outside service personnel when inside manpower is available...
...quick succession, Pat has made her U.S. and Canadian TV debuts, signed her first record contract (with Vik). "One thing I don't want to do in music," she says, "is to go in for the oh-how-sad-I-am-I've-lost-the-only-man-I've-ever-had, and I'm-covered-with-moss school of thing." She knows just how she wants to sound: "It's like nudes in art; you can have them Manet's way, in their purest form, or you can have them Petty style...
...California-born Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis has had a sharp and recent rise to operatic stardom. Two years ago she was an offstage voice at the Berlin State Opera; she is now under contract with Berlin for two more seasons. She made her first successes as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, and the Sexton's Widow in Leos Janacek's Jenufa, made her debut at the Metropolitan last spring as Eboli, will return there for several guest appearances next season. In Europe she has been such a spectacular overnight success, notes one British critic, that...
...right in his own shop. To cut costs, the News's Publisher E. Robert McDowell, a longtime Hoiles-man (and onetime printer), dropped the paper's staff-written business column, trimmed admen's commissions. Hoiles had agreed to honor the News's American Newspaper Guild contract with editorial and business office staffers, but employees had no hope of renewing the one-year contract,when it expired last February. Many longtime staffers quit and were replaced by nonunion newsmen from other Hoiles papers. In May, when contract negotiations broke down, the Guild called a strike. Circulation dropped...
Bubbly Aluminum. The first practical "foamed" aluminum for extra-light weight has been produced under U.S. Air Force contract by Bjorksten Research Laboratories at Madison, Wis. Filled with bubbles made by hydrogen gas, the new metal is one-tenth as heavy as aluminum sheet, can be sawed, nailed, bolted or glued to other objects. Immediate military use: as lightweight parts in jet planes. Potential civilian use: as a fireproof, rot-resistant substitute for lumber in residential house construction...