Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pioneer behind De Long is Colonel Leon B. ("Slim") De Long, 54. a rough-hewn Texan who ran away at 17 to join the Marines and learned his engineering the hard way as a private contractor and U.S. Army engineer. Retiring after World War II. in which he bossed 170.000 military and civilian construction people in Alaska, De Long got wind of a new kind of jack, more powerful than any before, snapped up the patent rights and brainstormed the idea of a mobile drilling platform for oilmen. Until then, the only offshore drilling was from permanent rigs that cost...
...cars to his cronies for personal use, ordered the city to pay the license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶ Lauro required every city contractor to kick back up to 10% to his "Welfare and Feast Fund," supposedly for poor Neapolitans, who thought their Christmas packages and spaghetti handouts had come from Lauro's own pocket. ¶Dandified Senator Gaetano Fiorentino, Lauro's No. 1 helper who now drives a $6,000 Mercedes...
Rather than "hang around for the bitter end," Sandhurst-bred Major Powell, 49, quit after 28 years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting...
Split Board. Vogel's avowed enemies are onetime TV Producer (Dragnet) Stanley Meyer and Joseph Tomlinson, a millionaire Canadian contractor and biggest (5%) individual Loew stockholder; both have long been dissatisfied with the operation of the company. Last year, with M-G-M showing a $3,000,000 loss on movie production, the threat of a proxy war was stemmed only by a deal that split Loew's board. At the February meeting Vogel was allowed to choose six directors, the Tomlinson-Meyer group another six, with a neutral member in New York Herald Tribune President and Editor...
...resigned his umpire's job. With him went two other directors. General Dynamics' President Frank Pace Jr. and Manhattan Attorney George A. Brownell,* both of whom have voted with President Vogel. Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis B. Mayer, the aging (72) lion trainer who retired six years ago, but whose...