Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Situations." What interested the Sen ate Subcommittee on Investigations was the fact that Chotiner's name appeared in the records of one Herman Kravitz, a uniform maker from New Jersey, who had been convicted of misappropriating Government material and blacklisted as a Government contractor. What had Chotiner done to earn the $5,000 fee that Kravitz' accountant had recorded? To find out, the subcommittee called Chotiner to testify in private, and then subpoenaed him for a public hearing...
...resurface one tier would cost roughly $12,000. Because Soldier's Field is not completely dry, a contractor's rough estimate for new courts, complete with drainage and fences, is high--between $4,500 for clay and $6,000 for asbestos-composition, which needs no rolling. This is less money than the amount alumni are trying to raise for the restoration of Memorial Hall...
...Jersey town of Franklin, sometime Actress Magda (This Thing Called Love) Gabor, fortyish, eldest of the three best-known U.S. glamour imports from Hungary, took a groom, Queens Contractor Arthur ("Tony") Gallucci, 45. Three years ago Mama Jolie Gabor, ageless, had expressed concern about marrying off twice-wed Eva and thrice-wed Magda: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and best diamonds." Week's end brought another groom to the Gabor hearthside. In Manhattan Eva (younger than her mother) married handsome Beverly Hills Surgeon John...
Jack Kelly has made several names for himself-in business, sports and politics. As a young boy, he went to work carrying hods for his brother, a brick contractor. In his spare time he practiced rowing on the Schuylkill, became proficient enough to try for the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Britain's Henley Royal Regatta in 1920. He was turned down, though; as a former bricklayer, he was not considered a gentleman. Kelly beat the Diamond Sculls winner just the same, at the Olympics two months later, and sent his stained sculling cap to King George...
...lease-purchase arrangement, the Government gets a private contractor to pay for the building, keep title to it. The Government moves in, pays the contractor a fixed yearly sum, also reimburses him for local taxes, insurance and other costs. At the end of the lease period (maximum: 25 years), when the contractor's cost is amortized and his profit made, title to the building goes to the Government. Advantages of the lease-purchase device are that it keeps a steady flow of new buildings coming into the federal system, smooths out peaks and valleys in federal spending caused...