Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...
...hopefuls who pitched tents, built rickety lean-tos, rigged up their equipment with floodlights for around-the-clock drilling. To carry away the oil, Richfield was laying a 35-mile, 6-inch pipeline to connect with a bigger one that ran to Los Angeles County. Richfield has given the contractor ten days to complete the line...
Last week Subway Contractor Mario Luccio decided to get tough. National Fine Arts Director Guglielmo de Angelis d'Ossat begged in vain for more time. Luccio shook his head. While archeologists disconsolately stared, the work went on again full blast...
When a U.S. contractor set out to build a building or a road, he ordered cement from as many as ten plants. The nearest might be next door, the farthest 1,000 miles away. But when the cement was delivered, it all came at the same price, no matter whether it had been shipped one mile or 1,000. The "multiple basing point system" worked that...
Toshiyo Oda is a contractor, poet and philosopher who lives in Tokyo. Recently he has become a political backer of General Douglas MacArthur. Last month, when MacArthur declared his willingness to run for the U.S. presidency if nominated, Oda painted two large signs over the two-story office of his Japan Instant Construction Co.: "We wish MacArthur for President United States...