Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most spectacular moment of a transit of the Panama Canal's great Gaillard Cut is the passage below Contractor's Hill, whose sheer rock face, blasted off to make the waterway, rises above ships' decks for 300 ft. Last week it was learned that some or all of this rock face is in danger of toppling into the canal and blocking it. perhaps for months...
...Money, Just Guts." On a Boise River project in 1908, Morrison heard that one of the contractors would make $100,000. "If that fellow can make $100,000," said Morrison, "I can make $1,000,000." With that, he marched up to a small contractor named Morris Knudsen, who owned a few horses and was building a road to the dam. Introducing himself, Morrison said: "I'd like to go into business with...
...first capital consisted of $600 in cash, a dozen wheelbarrows, a few horses, some picks and shovels. The company's first job-a $14,000 subcontract to build a pumping station on the Snake River-brought only a tiny profit. The prime contractor and the promoter got into a court fight, and M-K was caught in the middle. Morrison ruefully recalls: "You can't make money out of lawsuits...
...money, was the short item, and the government turned to the private builder to get the job done quickly. At the same time, it wrote the builder a code of minimum standards that was not as stiff as the one governing public construction. With this flexibility, the private contractor was able to cut certain costs and build more cheaply than the government itself could. But even if private construction had not been quicker and cheaper than public building, which it was, the federal government would have been restrained on political grounds. A substantial part of the nation in 1941 felt...
...Press "accepted the resignation" of its Boston bureau manager, Gardner L. Frost, a U.P. employee for 17 years, who got $500 last year from the track. The Boston Post, whose track reporter was on the list, said that he was not an employee of the paper but a "private contractor who sells a racetrack service to the Post." Hearst's American and Record replied that they saw nothing wrong with their staffers earning extra money so long as "they do their own jobs." But A.P. General Manager Frank Starzel took a much stricter view. Said he: "We deem...