Word: contract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munroe-Langstroth Contractors of North Attleboro started to dig into the Charles last Wednesday on a one-year, $732,000 contract with the Metropolitan District Commission. The whole project, including the access roads on both sides of the river and an extension of Mem Drive to Arsenal Street, Watertown, will cost another...
...span on the Charles. Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16 was consulted; the MDC doesn't want to interfere with the activities of Harvard crews. Both approaches will be continuous-flow rotaries; the MDC doesn't want another such two-headed bottle-neck as the Lars Anderson Bridge. The contract for the rotaries and for the new road on the north shore of the river will be let in July, and the work will be completed at the same time as the bridge, by the end of October 1950, according to the MDC's plans...
...peacetime history. It whittled no significant amount off Harry Truman's budget at any point, but it added a few hundred millions here & there. It gave raises to just about everybody-the President, the Cabinet, high Administration officials, postal and civil-service employees. Its total outlay in cash, contract authority, tax refunds and debt service amounted to a whopping $51 billion...
...revealed during the trial that Lyons had done nothing inconsistent with the mores of Massachusetts politicians. The defense maintained that the architects gift to Lyons cost the taxpayers nothing since the contract on which Lyons and taken a kickback had gone to the lowest bidder as it should, and the building project was not frivolous...
Married. Zoe Ann Olsen, 18, blonde Olympic aquastar, holder of 14 national diving championships; and Jack. Jensen, 22, University of California All-America (1948) fullback and minor league baseball player (he was bought last week by the New York Yankees, got a $15,000 a year contract and a $35,000 bonus); in Oakland, Calif...