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...rule in the various member institutes, some of which have long been run as personal fiefdoms by their directors. Such autocracy can be costly. The new radio telescope near Bonn, for example, has been plagued by serious vibration problems because, critics say, the institute acted as its own general contractor...
...Chiangmai Airport is a terminal and warehouse for the CIA's transport contractor, Air America. A short take off and landing plane is usually in sight there...
About 40 miles west of Chiangmai a Thai contractor is currently building an access road to the slopes of Intranon Mountain, one of Thailand's highest peaks. A radar station is to be built near the summit. The US Embassy spokesman claims that it will be a Thai station and that he was therefore unable to comment...
...class of vessels that will cost as much as $100 million each. They are known among shipbuilders as "super thermos bottles" for the mountains of insulation encircling their holds to keep the gas at -259° F., its liquefying point. Tenneco stands to be cut in as contractor for at least several of those vessels: it happens to own the nation's largest shipbuilding operation, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock...
Young Eli Broad, a bright, broke, freshly certified public accountant, closed what proved to be his most important deal in 1956: in exchange for free space in the small Detroit office of Builder Donald Kaufman, he agreed to do the contractor's bookkeeping. Broad quickly sensed that rich rewards awaited anyone who could bring order to the splintered, untidy, often wasteful world of home building. Within months, the accountant and the contractor formed Kaufman and Broad Building Co. and laid the foundation for one of the industry's fastest-growing giants...