Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lamb. Last week the lamb was ritually slaughtered as Daley, 64, walked off with his fourth term by a margin of more than half a million votes. The mayor racked up 789,163-73% of the total ballots cast - while his opponent, John Waner, a prosperous, self-made heating contractor, tallied 272,955. Even in the Negro wards, from which the Democrats feared a strong protest vote, Daley outdrew Waner...
...sales beyond $2 billion for the past three years, in 1965 the company lost its No. 1 spot to rival Boeing, which also happened to be fat with commercial orders. If and when the supersonic-transport program gets under way, North American will assemble wing sections for the prime contractor (Boeing again), but so far its only sizable commercial airframe business is building Sabreliner corporate jets...
...sprawl to water purification to figuring out how a diocese should deploy its priests. Aerojet-General, principally a rocket-engine maker, has contracted to build two automated post offices, and has begun planning new methods of solid waste disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with $1.5 billion worth of 1966 plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing a hospital operations system for Edmonton, Canada, studying...
...became chairman on the death of his brother Robert in 1961, Lockheed has overcome its troubles of the 1950s, when it was beset by costly flops on a couple of aircraft (Saturn and Constitution) and crashes on others, notably the Electra. As the Defense Department's biggest single contractor five years running, Lockheed has seen its profits increase to more than $51 million (on sales of over $2 billion) last year v. $37,200,000 in 1962. Though disappointed over losing the SST competition to Boeing, the company expects continuing defense demands, diversification into such areas as oceanography, will...
...full five fathoms the treasure lay for the next 250 years. In 1949, a Sebastian, Fla., contractor named Kip Wagner began to collect the blackened silver coins that occasionally washed ashore. None of them, he noted, were dated later than 1715. Wagner began ransacking libraries for data on the 1715 catastrophe. He managed to obtain 3,000 feet of microfilmed documents from Seville archives, found details of the Silver Plate fleet's cargo manifestoes plus testimony from the official investigation of the wreck...