Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that a Government tree should grow. After five months as head of Rich-land's frustrated, ineffectual city council, McDonald discovered that there was no government in Richland except the Atomic Energy Commission, and its contractor,, the General Electric Co. Late one night, Mayor McDonald labored over the manuscript of his first public speech, delivered it next day in a cold drizzle to 45 citizens and the American Legion band. Said he: "Our local government here is not a democracy. It could be called a benevolent...
...another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the beginning of the war, and in 1943 Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy. The contractor jacked up the price three times, until...
...year lease on some Dallas property he owned. Then he used the leased land as collateral for a $500,000 bank loan. Hilton put up $100,000 of his own money, and raised $200,000 from friends. He needed another $150,000, and he borrowed it from the contractor who was to build the hotel. Then he ran out of money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check to pay a plumber's bill, Hilton dashed to a friend who knew the postmaster to get the check back before it was delivered. Without...
Sheldon won the Silver Star for gallantry on Guadalcanal and died later of complication from tropical diseases contractor in the South Pacific...
...there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...