Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, just as his plan was well under way, Bob Strickland died. But the Trust Co. carried on his program. By last week, in 100 of Georgia's 159 counties, 57 farm contractors (80% of them veterans) were helping farmers grade land, pull stumps, build terraces and ditches, spread fertilizer. Farmers soon found that the contractors could save them time and money. Example: one contractor charged only $150 to clear 20 acres of cut-over woodland in a day, a job that would have taken the farmer weeks...
Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
John R. Junkin, a sand & gravel dealer from Natchez, told the committee he had poured the concrete for the Dream House swimming pool, but had marked the $1,194.70 bill paid before he mailed it. Contractor M. T. Reed had contributed $3,500 to the Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
...witness, Robert Gandy, Baptist church deacon, insurance man, and political associate of Bilbo's, had been testifying about an arrangement under which, he said, part of a $25,000 campaign contribution by a war contractor was to have been paid to Collins...
Paul Trousdale got into the Los Angeles building business by way of the University of Southern California and the ad department of Beech-Nut. After a year as an adman, Trousdale took a $125-a-month timekeeper's job with a local contractor, quit to form his own company with a $10,000 bank loan to finance...