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...official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
Fashions in bosses as well as fashions in political livelihoods change. Boss Tweed (1861-72) went in for peculation and bribery. Boss Murphy (1902-24)-brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. Nowadays construction bonding is the most remunerative of Tam-many-controlled activities, and judgeships are the most luscious appointment plums which the Hall can bestow...
Because construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon is the largest single engineering feat ever attempted in the U. S., individual contracting companies were hesitant about undertaking the job for the Government. Therefore a group of potent Western contractors got together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other...
...Companies which won this biggest single peacetime Government contract is composed of: Utah Construction Co.; Henry J. Kaiser and W. A. Bechtel & Co.; McDonald & Kahn Ltd.; Morrison-Knud-sen & Co.; J. F. Shea Co. and Pacific Bridge Co. Principal organizer of Six Companies and its president is William H. Wattis, 72, head of Utah Construction Co. With his older brother, Edmund Orson Wattis (Six Companies' vice president) he began work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif...
...rich oil land. In 1918 General Barco sold the rights to 1,300,000 choice acres to Colombian Petroleum Co. of the U. S. In 1926, again in 1928, Colombia declared the Barco Concession cancelled, caused many a memorandum to pass between Washington and Bogota. Last week, however, a contract was signed by Colombia giving Colombian Petroleum right to work the land for 50 years. Plans for a $25,000,000 pipeline, prospects of employment for thousands, hopes of a big oil future, excited all Colombians when they heard the news...