Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some have been completed and are practically ready for occupancy now. The contractor's present estimate of completion of all 400 is October 15. Assignment of tenants will begin immediately...
Biggest buyer was a 43-year-old contractor named Martin Wunderlich, of Jefferson City, Mo. In the largest single surplus sale to an individual, he acquired (for $2,780,000) a whole plainful of Flying Fortresses and other big planes (see cut), 5,540 in all. Like the other buyers he must scrap them...
...Rosoff, millionaire subway builder and longtime contractor in Latin America, on frolic at Saratoga, N.Y., asked a nightclub singer for his favorite song, "South America Take It Away," and got action. An Argentine visitor objected. Sam, a nimble 63, put 200 pounds behind the punch, knocked him cold...
This time it was Tacoma's burly, New Dealish Congressman John M. Coffee, a man who had inveighed with truculent zeal against Franco, scrap for Japan, and big corporations. Nub of the committee's case: Coffee had taken a $2,500 check from Eivind Anderson, a Tacoma contractor, after helping him get a $93,517 wartime construction job at Fort Lewis...
Last week, while Republican members of the committee listened happily, the contractor told of meeting Coffee in a narrow, deserted Capitol corridor back in 1941. "Mr. Coffee said, 'I understand from Paul (Paul A. Olson, Coffee's secretary) that you will pay $2,500 for our representing you here in Washington...