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LOCKHEED Aircraft Corp., a pioneer in plane building and long the biggest U.S. defense contractor, has gained fame through its Constellation and Electra aircraft, its Polaris and Poseidon missiles, its U-2 spy plane. Rolls-Royce Ltd. has become one of Britain's brightest industrial ornaments by making the most luxurious cars in the world, as well as engines for the Concorde supersonic jet, nearly every plane in the Royal Air Force, and rocket and diesel motors for road, rail and water transport in more than 100 countries. Last week those two storied giants threatened to push each other...
...study of 27 areas found that workers in seven of the lowest-paid building trades averaged $11,342 yearly in wages and fringes. Indiana ironworkers were averaging $15,828 a year, and Southern California carpenters were collecting up to $22,234. Says Cleveland Contractor William J. Hunkin II: "In 1969,1 paid one operating engineer $34,928. I paid one common laborer $27,844 and another $23,983. Seven of my other common laborers earned $19,500 to $22,500." In New York City, some electricians get $35,000 a year...
CALL her Liz, she asked, or Sister Elizabeth, anything but Sister Lizzie, which everyone calls her, and makes her sound so young. Her father, a prosperous contractor who is now dead, and her mother came from Ireland in the early '20s; she was a twin in a family of nine. There is scant sympathy at home for her work in the peace movement. When her youngest brother brought the bail money to free her last week, he told her that the family thought that she had probably done everything the Government charged her with "and a lot more things...
...carried into agencies long inured to official corruption. Last month the N.J. State Investigations Committee held public hearings on charges of corruption among officials of the Hudson County mosquito extermination commission. The commission was accused of shaking down the Penn Central Railroad and a New Jersey Turnpike Authority contractor for $114,000 for imaginary repairs on mosquito-control drainage ditches in the Jersey meadowlands...
Protected Criminals. The man who commanded the division, SS Brigade-führer Heinrich (Heinz) Lammerding, became a successful building contractor in Düsseldorf after the war, even though a French military court in Bordeaux condemned him to death in absentia in J951 for the Tulle hangings. Lammerding is one of about 1,000 war criminals who were convicted in absentia by French courts after World War II but are still free in Germany...