Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Geophysical Year (July 1957 through December 1958) will be as round and silvery as any moon over Tin Pan Alley. The man-made moon will be a shiny magnesium sphere 20 inches in diameter, weighing 21½ Ibs., according to details revealed this week in Detroit by the contractor, Brooks & Perkins...
...last week arrested Finger Man Miranti and Contractor Carlino, charged them with conspiring to obstruct justice by trying to prevent Columnist Riesel's appearance before a Federal Grand Jury investigating labor rackets. Agents also locked up three material witnesses who knew enough to be "hot" too. To Columnist Riesel, Telvi and his confederates were "complete and absolute strangers." But he was sure that their trail would lead to labor racketeers. "They picked on me," he told reporters, "because they wanted to silence the papers...
Soon Duke and his friends were playing for private affairs and dances at Washington's True Reformers Hall. A musical contractor arranged bookings in return for half of the fees. Duke noticed that the contractor got his business from a small ad in the classified phone book, so the boy took an ad himself, and he clicked. After that he never had to split his fees. Before long he had a house, a car, a wife and a son, Mercer. But his musical friends all moved to New York, where the jazz was hot. Duke followed in 1922, though...
...should be locally financed, battled public-power advocates in Congress to win legislation withdrawing Priest Rapids from the federal projects list. In rapid succession, Grant County P.U.D. fought court skirmishes with Washington's State Power Commission, which wanted to develop Priest Rapids itself, and with a local contractor who objected to the district's plan for power distribution...
Since most of the work will be done in the contractor's shop and then applied directly to the building, there should be no disruption in the building's use. In addition, the necessary scaffolding will be placed on the platform which is the base of the roof, and thus will not interfere with entrance into Memorial Hall...