Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...Lousy Bucks. Insured by 20th Century-Fox for $900,000 (all it could get), Zanuck last year signed Hollywood's longest-term contract. It calls for him to work ten more years at his old salary of $260,000 a year, with an option to go on for another ten as an adviser at an annual $150,000. As the largest individual stockholder, he has 100,000 shares in the company, plus 30,000 in trust for his children (total current value: $2,616,250). Last year his income from salary and dividends, before taxes, came...
...town of State College has been "dry" since national prohibition ended, although it does permit the sale of beer and ale under a local option rule...
...plan should be flexible. Benefits should vary with length of service and rates of pay. Instead of a mandatory retirement age, the employer should have the option of keeping valuable employees, who are willing to stay, beyond retirement...
Thorough administration consideration is being given to the Graduate Student Council suggestions that graduate students be given the option of having only one third of the present maid service...