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...tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...
There, by dispensing favors, Miró could grow wealthy. Guizado accepted, said Miro; the Vice President, a wealthy contractor, had recently suffered business reverses and needed to rebuild his own bankroll...
Vice President José Guizado, 55, who moved up to the presidency, is a millionaire contractor, educated at Nashville's Vanderbilt University, and another good friend of the U.S. But he is in poor health and lacks Chichi's tough-minded energy. Remón's death thus created a vacuum in politics as well as at the head of the National Guard. Arnulfo Arias, if he is freed, may seize the chance to whip up his followers for a new try at the presidency. Guard officers will have to recalculate their loyalties. Between political demagoguery...
...France there are 208,250 building contractors, 90% of whom employ fewer than six workers. The smallest contract is sublet to a myriad of tiny enterprises. If they have the luck to find an honest contractor, the French couple may have the pleasure of watching squads of carpenters, masons, plasterers and plumbers move on and off the job with scant regard for each other or for the order of their work, and of seeing walls lie bare for months at a time. The average time to complete a French house: 2½ years...
...construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that he was a "Chicago boy," Dale emphasized how tough he was; he bragged that he had been indicted for murder on another construction job. (Actually indicted for conspiracy to assault, Dale was freed for lack...