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...allowed profit on Navy contracts and Army aircraft contracts from 12 to 8%: "There are two reasons. The reduction in . . . profit . . . has made it very difficult for the aircraft manufacturer to place subcontracts [which] work out about 5% net profit . . . it just does not interest [the sub-contractor]. . . . The other and major reason, however, is the lack of definite legal provisions under which they can . . . carry out this contract. They do not know where they stand...
Some years ago the plain daughter of a wealthy Marseille dock contractor caught an engineer Count, married him, moved to Paris and set up a salon for journalists and politicians. Helene de Fortes was short, homely, plain, dark, nervous, jealous and not very bright; but she apparently had something for which Frenchmen would trade every grace. Widowed two years ago, she set her jib for a bright financier named Paul Reynaud. Soon Reynaud, who till then had been a good family man, separated from his wife. Under the administration of Georges Bonnet (then Minister of Justice) the divorce laws were...
...Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back (at that time a four-day auto trip) between dawn and dusk...
...pattern until 1905, finally died of what was termed "paralysis of the heart"-which was no surprise to some cynical Philadelphia taxpayers. After him came "The Dukes," the three Vare brothers, sons of a South Philadelphia hog-breeder: 1) George, one of the "King's" lieutenants, a contractor; 2) Edwin H., an ashman who extended his control of the neck to most of Philadelphia, died in 1922 controlling most of Pennsylvania's politicos and courts; 3) William, the youngest, whom the U. S. Senate refused to seat (1927-29), on the ground that he had bought the election...
Alarmed were Chicago's bellicose Mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash. Mr. Kelly is 63, interested mainly in his work; older and wiser is Contractor, Horseowner Nash, whose interests, in order, are: 1) sewers, 2) stables, 3) politics. Sniffing Republican resurgence in the air, Messrs...