Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray knew a good thing when he saw it. His steelworkers' new contract with the Bethlehem Steel Co. was a juicier plum (by 2½? or 5? an hour) than the union had previously hoped to win from the struck steel industry. From now on, the complicated "Bethlehem Formula," would be the basis for the steelworkers' terms...
Last week, when the 15 bids were opened for the contract to renovate the White House, at a cost of $4,160,000 plus a fixed fee, McShain was the winner again. The highest bid was a fixed fee of $950,000; the lowest, $100,000, was McShain's. Said McShain: "I figured nobody would go as low as that, so I bid it. I may not make a nickel on it, but I've done so much work in Washington, I just thought I'd like to add the White House...
McShain now has $100 million worth of buildings under contract, including Washington's $21.6 million General Accounting Office and the $16.8 million Clinical Health Center. He has just completed the $3.8 million Du Pont Circle underpass. On the White House job, he has to contract to complete it in 660 calendar days. He feels sure he can do it, though he won't have room to use more than 300 workers at a time. His big worry: dodging the souvenir hunters...
...Harvard center forward position, Coach Bruce Munro tired a new plan, alternating Jim Bell and Drehmel. The project met with some degree of success, for Drehmel's feeding style was a sharp--and confusing--contract to Bell's crashing, pounding style...
...Munroe-Langstroth steamshovels started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...