Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When farmers refused to pay the Stirone organization a fee for working on the projects, a reign of terror was begun which finally ended in the trial of Stirone unionists-but not Nick. From the stand, Stirone was accused of telling an aide that he wanted a contractor and two C.I.O organizers murdered, that he wanted people to "shiver in their boots when Nick Stirone was mentioned." Last month Stirone was hauled into court by the business agent of a laborer's local, who wanted Nick put under bond to keep the peace because "he said he would cave...
Aboard a yacht in Mobile Bay, Alabama's Adjutant General Ben M. Smith was presented to blue-eyed, blonde Evie Robert, wife of Contractor "Chip" Robert, former New Deal favorite. Courtly General Smith bowed low, took a step backward, prat-fell into the harbor...
...builders got started on a set of emergency houses designed by famed Architect Walter Gropius of Harvard and his co-Bauhäusler Marcel Breuer. They differed as much from the first crop of Government houses for defense workers as a Frank Lloyd Wright design does from a suburban contractor...
Lasting two days, it brought together 55 prime contractors holding over $3,000,000,000 in defense orders and about 1,200 would-be subcontractors. Like its 50-odd-predecessors, the clinic's procedure was convention-like: registration, handshakes, conferences, cigars. But the atmosphere was far more serious. To many a little businessman, the clinic might easily mean the difference between commercial life & death. Each prime contractor had a table in the hotel ballrooms, a few rickety chairs, a big placard stating his name, the kind of work he could farm out. Soon prime and subcontractors were head...
...reason why most of the 185,000 U.S. manufacturers are without defense orders is that owners lack the ingenuity and brass to get them. Some got bone chills in a prime contractor's waiting room, some got the Washington run-around,* most never even tried. A few have been burned by phony Washington go-betweens. A few have resorted to real go-betweens (nominally "employes," for legal reasons) and got contracts at the price of large commissions...