Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there some reason why the same incompetent patch jobs is performed over and over again? Surely there must be some contractor in the City able to do a patch job which will last more than 24 hours...
Disasters follow briskly. Ants. Unions. Overflowing toilets. Insufficient rain. A crooked contractor. A love affair with an alcoholic actress. Insufficient working capital. Island politics. And then an earthquake cracks the cistern that holds the resort's entire water supply, the naive native bankers turn out to be as rapacious as barracudas, and a key employee goes homicidally...
McCann, who sponsored the 1962 legislation authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses, angrily declared that "I resent--and resent strongly--any individual alluding that I have collusion with a contractor...
Among cash-rich oil companies, realty investment has become a major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...
...back federal taxes, Contractor John J. Sexton countered with a remarkable claim for depreciating the 88.8-acre garbage dump that he owns in Chicago. Had he bought it for normal use, he said, the land would have cost $44,000. But the seller, realizing what the plot was to be used for, charged and got $150,000. The purchase included two 60-ft. garbage pits. When the holes are filled, Sexton told the Internal Revenue Service, the land will again be worth only $44,000. Sexton thus claimed a tax deduction for "wasting assets...