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Word: options (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to die. He hustled off to Moscow, checked into the best hotel in town, and paid a call on Molotov. Two months later Browder was back in the U.S. as American representative of three official Russian publishing houses. The Kremlin had apparently decided that Browder was a valuable option on the day when friendly cooperation between Communism and capitalism might once more be the international party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Comrade at Large | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...minute CBS show last year, Burrows tried his song parodies on a mass audience. After 29 weeks, his sponsor dropped his option. Explained Burrows: "That's the equivalent of where in another business the boss says, 'I'll trouble you for your key to the washroom.' It leads to unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Just for the Laugh | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...songs, with Duke Ellington behind him, Billy was to get a respectable $2,000 a week. Said his manager last week: "Before that appearance, if the Paramount had offered us an option for next year at $3,000, we would have snapped it up. Now, we don't know how much to ask for him from week to week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mr. B. Goes to Town | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Other major changes include giving students the specific option, when being solicited, of rejecting the Council's 20 percent deduction from all contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Schedules Two Money Drives Next Year, Allows More Freedom in Allocation | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

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