Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Suez within 20 months. ¶Britain may, for seven years, continue to use the vast storehouses and machine shops to outfit and maintain its Middle East forces. But during this time the Suez base must be staffed not by the military but by civilian technicians, under a private contractor. ¶Britain's troops may return to Suez and reactivate the entire base if any of the eight Arab League states or Turkey is attacked...
Party-Girl Fees. Another silent witness was Andrew Frost, who was suspended a fortnight ago as assistant FHA director for New Mexico. Did he ask a contractor to throw a party, with girls, on the night of a ground-breaking ceremony? Did he attend another party at a motel in Alamogordo, N.Mex. at which a contractor supplied three girls at a cost of between $400 and $500? Did contractors pick up the tabs for two fishing trips to Mexico? Did a building supplier send him two carloads of concrete block for his own house? Frost refused to answer...
PENN CENTER office and residential development in Philadelphia, which was started last year by Manhattan's Uris Bros. (TIME, June 1, 1953), is getting a big addition. For $35 million, Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey bought the 24-story Pennsylvania Suburban Station Building, will build a four-or five-story transportation center nearby, topped by an eight-story tower for offices for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...removed to make the canal safe, but official estimates ran as high as a total of 2,350,000 cu. yds. Tecon will probably collect around $3,391,000 for the job. To earn it, they will have to perform some tricky engineering feats, for the massive rock of Contractor's Hill lies atop the soft shale. Breaking it up will take at least 1,000,000 Ibs. of dynamite. If a careless or badly planned blast drops any of the rubble into the canal, the contractors will have to dredge it out at their own expense...
Three times in his 62 years Jacques Lipchitz has had to rise from the ashes of disaster to pursue his career as a sculptor. When he was a youthful art student in Paris, his father, a Lithuanian contractor, lost all his money, told Jacques to give up and come home; Lipchitz got a part-time job, kept on with his studies. In 1941 the Nazis forced Lipchitz to flee from France; with only $20 to his name and some of his drawings, the sculptor had to begin all over again in the U.S. In 1952, just as he had recovered...