Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luke Lea, Tennessee hero and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and three other southern newspapers* arranged a contract with the Howell family to purchase control of the Atlanta Constitution for $1,050,000 (in stock) plus an additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...
...Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival producer's contract, and marries a sub-star from Kansas City, to the luxurious jingle of magnificent jewels, gilt-edged limousines, plum-colored footmen, in short−Hollywood. The author handles his glittering incredible material with staccato brilliance...
...came bids for supplying the U. S. with 12,800;000,000 stamped envelopes, enough to last four years. (TIME, Aug. 20.) Lowest of three estimates was the figure of International Envelope Co., an International Paper subsidiary. Post Office officials noted this bid was 22% lower than the present contract price (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio). But last week, the U. S. rejected all estimates, called for new bids...
...business aspect of the project is attractive: 100,000 U. S. churches and other religious institutions are probable customers. Ministers and laymen have been buying stock in the Religious Film Trust. Last week the Trust had thus enough funds to warrant a contract with the Acoustics Products Co., affiliation of the Sonora Phonograph...
Last week, as shrewd observers had expected, the operation was called off. The mother of the twins became anxious and the girls hobbled away from their hospital to their home in Holyoke, Mass. With them they had a fat contract for 15 weeks in vaudeville; not, however, with Press-agent Turner's organization but with its rival, Keith...