Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radio coverage of Harvard football games this fall will be sharply curtailed because of the failure of the University to renew its contract with Boston radio station WBZ, which has covered Crimson home and away games for the past three years, it was learned yesterday...
Then Subcommittee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy* began questioning him about Mulligan & Co.'s attempts to renew a contract with RCA a few months...
...other committees probed vague charges that other businessmen in Government had used their official positions for private gain, while, before the House Banking Committee, an Administration bill to encourage businessmen to take Government jobs was having a rough time. The Administration wants to renew the Defense Production Act, which authorizes the employment of businessmen "without compensation," called WOCs in Potomac slang. (They are the latter-day successors of the famed dollar-a-year men, but receive not even the dollar since Congress in 1950 authorized the Government to accept the services of individuals without compensation...
Last week, in a brief special session, the Memphis city commission voted to construct a $100 million steam plant. TVA was notified that Memphis would not renew its contract in 1958. If it was a bluff, it was likely to be a costly one: President Eisenhower promptly ordered a review of Dixon-Yates that was seen as a first step toward terminating the contract...
When Dave Beck and his A.F.L. Teamsters Union set out last February to renew contracts with truckers in eleven Western states, they were after many new benefits. Specifically, they demanded a three-year contract providing a pay increase of 10? an hour this year, 8? more in 1956, 8? more in 1957, plus a pension plan that truckers would finance at 10? an hour. Unexpressed was the union's plan to negotiate a master agreement to cover all trucking in the West. After three months of fruitless negotiations, the teamsters struck three big truckers (Pacific Intermountain Express, Consolidated Freightways...