Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fleet of vessels was sold for $325,000. including only $28,674 cash. Then the purchasers were given a mail contract worth between $350.000 and $450,000 per annum...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...Part of this $750 was paid to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's Ladies Home Journal on an unfulfilled contract it had for Miss Oelrichs' story...
Under the terms of a contract which has just been made with the Cambridge Electric Light Company, the question of a heating plant for Harvard has been settled for at least ten years to come, it was announced at Lehman Hall yesterday. Construction of a tunnel from the plant of the Company at Western Avenue and the Parkway to the foot of DeWolf Street near McKinlock Hall will be started by the University next week...
...Bohnen, most currently famed Wagnerian basso, announced that he was "sick and tired" of opera, said the public is tired of it too. He, who has rarely sung twice with the same makeup, is tired of the beards of Hans Sachs, Wotan, Hagen, King Mark. He has signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have...