Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difference. With a new bride, he moved to Oklahoma, became a young people's leader for the Church of God, soon felt the call to move on to California. There he organized churches of God in Bakersfield, San Jose and Sunnyvale. He also became a relatively successful contractor, prosperous enough to hire people to read to him from the Bible. "My wife and other people would read the verses to me, and I would mem-brize them," he says. "I have a good membry, and sometimes I would stay up all night long just listnin' to the Scriptures...
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, squatters took possession of millions of free acres of land in the West, but now there is not much worthwhile public land available. A few years ago, a Louisiana contractor named Louis Ray tried to establish himself as a homesteader on one of the last frontiers. Ray made a claim to several acres of coral reef that lay barely submerged five miles off the Florida coast...
...have run a news story and an editorial which state that Governor Volpe's construction company is a highway contractor...
...third contractor in the Cabinet, Walter Hickel (Interior), put his private holdings, worth an estimated $14 million, into trusteeship after being elected Governor of Alaska in 1966. Even if Cabinet salaries are not increased, Hickel stands to get a raise; the Governor of Alaska receives $27,500. But he must give up his free mansion in Juneau. Michigan pays its Governor $40,000, so George Romney (Housing and Urban Development) will be taking a $5,000 cut. Romney's personal holdings are estimated at $1,500,000, and have been in trust since he left American Motors to enter...
...field have novel ideas for handling riots. Fort Worth's Western Co. of North America, an oilfield-service firm, has developed a slippery powder called Instant Banana Peel, which is guaranteed to turn any street rumble into a sit-in. Baltimore-based AAI Corp.. a defense contractor, has come up with a tear-gas grenade with two crowd-control virtues: it has no shrapnel hazard, and it expels its chemicals in seconds-before it can be picked up and pitched back at the police. A company official says that its grenade sales doubled in 1968, and will double...