Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...match, Britain's sporting Chief of Air Staff Sir Dermot Boyle sprayed much lead to little avail, wound up 21st in an eagle-eyed field of 22 officers. He took his crushing defeat stoically: "Either I'm a very bad shot or there's a great deal of insubordination in the air force...
...Japan boost its exports and ride herd on Japan's commercial interests in the U.S. Fee (including Dewey's anticipated expense account): $200,000. But someone had goofed. Next day, after Dewey's office issued a firm "no comment," Japan's government allowed that the deal is not sealed as yet. Premature publicity may have doomed...
...latest movie, Ask Any Girl (TIME, June 1), is climbing to the top of the box office totem pole largely because of her enchanting performance in a second-rate story. For her next picture, Can-Can, she will get $250,000, and she has just concluded another $250,000 deal with NBC for 15 TV specials-not bad for a girl who only a few years ago was a Broadway understudy at $110 a week...
...making of a star, the rare quality we want." This was high praise from a man who boasts that "I have little personal relationship with actors. All actors are cattle." * Just before making Harry, Shirley eloped with Steve Parker, an unemployed actor with an urge to wheel and deal as a producer. Now Steve is in the Orient doing just that, making TV packages and movie shorts. ("He's a very rich man in yen," Shirley insists to doubting friends. "When he gets rolling, his business will make my operations look sick.") When Shirley made Around the World...
...what the twelve companies labeled an attempt to split off one of them and make a separate deal (as the union did with Bethlehem Steel Co. in 1949), McDonald asked for negotiations on an individual company basis. But the industry's team, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President Conrad Cooper, said it will not meet separately with the union's twelve local bargaining groups because it feels the only way to a contract is through top-level negotiations between the union and management four-man committees. If one thing emerged clearly last week...