Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one afternoon last week, a black Cadillac limousine pulled away from the White House, moved out of Washington and sped across the countryside toward Gettysburg, Pa. In it were the President of the U.S. and Washington Building Contractor Charles H. Tompkins, who is remodeling the house on Dwight Eisenhower's 189-acre farm at the edge of the Gettysburg battlefield. Behind came another White House car, its back seat piled high with bedding and some pots and pans from the White House kitchen. At the farm Dwight Eisenhower discussed final rebuilding details, grilled steaks for dinner, spent...
...state jobs are concerned, the Toll Road Commission, with only 93 employees, has comparatively little to offer. But there are other possibilities of succulent plums. A contractor who wins an award to build a section of the road probably will, in due time, get a call from Executive Director Albert J. Wedeking of the Toll Road Commission. After passing the time of day, Wedeking will say that "a good friend of mine" would like to come over. When the good friend arrives, he politely asks whether the contractor would like to make a contribution to the Republican Party (Craig division...
RADAR FENCE across far northern Canada will be built by Western Electric Co. for an estimated $250 million. Though costs will be borne jointly by the U.S. and Canada, Western Electric will act as prime contractor for the entire project, has allocated actual construction subcontracts to three groups of firms, two from Canada to build the eastern and central sections of the fence, and one from...
...This is the most wonderful time we've had since the last royal cremation." exclaimed a happy Siamese building contractor as he gazed about him in Bangkok last week. Thailand's carefree, colorful capital was in an unaccustomed fever of activity. On every side, under a blazing tropical sun, builders, bricklayers, tile setters, linemen, street sweepers and landscape gardeners were laboring, at a cost of perhaps $2,000,000, to ready their city for the arrival of the great men of SEATO (see above). The government of soft-spoken Strongman Marshal Phi-bun Songram, warm advocate...
...tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...