Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marquise has sold all the historic tapestries, paintings and furniture," complained the contractor's attorney. Last week the château was put up for auction. The townspeople, outbidding everyone else, bid 20 million francs ($57,000) for the sagging but prized tourist attraction. "We shall do everything possible," promised the mayor, "to repair and preserve its marvelous heritage...
...long delay in settling the outcome of the Democratic primary was due to a close vote and Maryland's county-unit system. Initial returns gave Byrd 80 unit votes to 72 for his opponent, Paving Contractor George P. Mahoney, who contested the election, concentrating on two counties whose seven units would have brought him victory. Last week, when the Maryland Court of Appeals upheld the validity of the contested Byrd ballots in the two counties, Mahoney conceded...
...shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor...
...technical departments are, of course, the true stars of such an overwhelming spectacle as this, and Director Michael Curtiz (Captain Blood, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex) deserves to be ranked for his managerial marvels with the general contractor who put up the pyramids...
Married. Sally Rand, 52, tireless fan-dancer; and Fred Lalla, 35, former Los Angeles plaster contractor; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. One hour after the ceremony, she discarded her wedding dress and stood coyly nude on the stage of Las Vegas' Silver Slipper Saloon...