Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dilworth had troubles beyond mere political enmities. His reform movement had outlasted its zeal, and scandals began to pile up. He dismissed them at first as "penny ante" stuff. Then he took off on a world tour. Then he came back, post haste, as the scandals grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth...
...newsman's question was calculated to put Nixon on the defensive, he adroitly turned it into an attack on Brown. Thus, there came a question about a $205,000 loan made in 1956 to Nixon's mother by the Hughes Tool Co.. a giant defense contractor. The loan, which went to support the ailing grocery and restaurant business of Nixon's brother Donald, was made secretly through a Hughes attorney and secured by a filling-station lot owned by Nixon's mother in hometown Whittier. Donald went broke the following year, and the filling station...
...Diego's unemployment to 8.8%. Worse yet, this figure is likely to grow higher, for the single major missile produced in San Diego is Convair's liquid-fueled Atlas, a weapon that the Air Force is gradually phasing out in favor of the solid-fueled Minuteman (major contractor: Boeing, in Seattle...
Visiting Stockholm four years ago, Dallas earth-moving Contractor Robert F. Thompson flipped on a hotel radio, found that he had struck Dullsville. Being a government monopoly, Swedish radio had a heavy accent on culture-worthy classics. What the Swedes really needed, felt Thompson, was a competing station offering an easier U.S. blend of pop music, commercials and more news. Dallas Tycoon Thompson decided to provide it. Buying a 3,300-ton German coastal freighter, Thompson renamed it Bon Jour, recruited deckhands and a disk jockey, surrounded them with broadcasting equipment at a total estimated cost...
...said third-term Adventist World President Reuben R. Figuhr, reiterating the historical position of the Seventh-day Adventists. But militant Negro Adventists, banded together in the Laymen's Leadership Conference, charged that church practice is "unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that his daughter Erica, 13, had been rejected for admittance to the Adventists' Mount Vernon Academy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. (The school was all white last year, will admit...