Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made behind closed doors and "not for attribution"missile manufacturers point out that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the armed services have not been good managers either. On missile-site programs, Air Force engineers regularly send through so many design changes -some necessary, some whimsical-that one contractor has run off 82,000 copies of plans, amended plans and new plans...
...Base launching site near Omaha, the construction contract was awarded to a builder who in one Pentagonian's words "didn't even own a wheelbarrow." His frantic efforts to subcontract the entire job produced such confusion and delay that the Air Force ruled that henceforth a contractor must be able to do at least 20% of the work with his own organization...
Gradually, rebelling against the open "living area," parents are rediscovering the joy of closed doors. Around the U.S., builders report that the master bedroom has become the single most important room in selling a house. "Houston women are no longer dazzled by built-in kitchens," says one Texas contractor. "The housewife would rather have a swanky bedroom than a fancy kitchen...
...found Ferret's reinforced concrete studio in Paris, with its glassed front wall, "a manifesto" in itself, and harked to Ferret's belief that "decoration always hides an error in construction." At Behrens' studio, Jeanneret was apprenticed with the self-effacing son of a poor masonry contractor in Aachen. His name: Mies van der Rohe, who is now the U.S. mas ter of the spare glass-and-steel skyscraper. At length Jeanneret opened an office in Paris "in a beastly little street, seventh floor, over a yard, in the servant's room...
Primarily affected by the proposed cancellation are the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp., major contractor for the initial airframe design, General Electric Co. and the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Aircraft Corp., who are developing the nuclear-powered engines. G.E. has already begun sending out notices to dozens of subcontractors and suppliers to stop work on orders totaling millions of dollars, estimated it may have to lay off hundreds of employees. Pratt & Whitney expects to lay off about 800. Convair would also be hurt by the elimination of additional funds for its 6-58 Hustler bomber and by Kennedy...