Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High & Wide. In Downieville, Calif., anxious to get a county road-building job, Contractor George Miller flew over the county courthouse in a plane, dropped his bid in a weighted envelope five minutes before the deadline, but lost the contract because his bid was too high...
...fine print of almost every contract between the U.S. Government and a private business, these words appear: "The contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color or national origin." Last week Dwight Eisenhower by executive order established a 15-man Government Contract Committee designed to give these fine-sounding words practical effect...
...college courses for G.I.s, the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) ran into a mutiny: 16 major universities out of 46 campuses affiliated with USAFI flatly refused to sign the 1954 contract. The offending clause, which the 16 felt was an invitation to federal control of American education: "The contractor will not employ or retain for the performance of services under this contract such persons as are disapproved by the Government." Among the universities pulling out: Michigan, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
During a Florida vacation in 1951, J. (for Joseph) Elgin Armstrong, a horse-fancying contractor from Brampton, Ont., took a fancy to a yearling filly named Helicopter. Half an hour later, he bought the little brown trotter from her trainer and part owner, Del Miller, for $7,900. Explains Armstrong now: "I wanted to win the Hambletonian...
...boss, Kenton R. Cravens, whose agency will probably be replaced next year by a bureau making loans to small businesses only, is running things as if RFC were already going out of business. He has fired 477 staffers, laid down a rigid stipulation that a defense contractor can get an RFC loan only with a certificate that the Government has first tried-and failed-to buy from a firm that does not need a loan. Result: loans have dwindled from ten or 15 a week...