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...also somewhat of a triumph for the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., which produces it, and its performance is precisely what the Pentagon has come to expect of the company. For an unprecedented four years in a row, the company has been the Defense Department's biggest single contractor. The $1.7 billion worth of new defense orders that Lockheed landed in the fiscal year ending last June 30 represented 7.1% of all contracts let by the Pentagon, nearly double the share of its nearest rival, General Dynamics. In the current year, Lockheed is certain to stay...
Beneath the graceful curve of the St. Louis Gateway Arch lies the empty shell of an underground visitors' center, partially completed when electricians' from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. local early this month walked off the job, stopping all work. Their complaint: the contractor had hired plumbers from the rival Congress of Industrial Unions, a labor organization formed by St. Louis Negroes, who cannot get into the lily-white building locals...
Supervised by the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, the construction is proceeding under a cost plus fixed-fee contract that yields low profits but eliminates the hazard of loss. More important, this system gives the contractor an incentive to get the job done as quickly as possible. The amount of the fees involved is a closely kept secret. Says the combine's overall boss, Morrison-Knud-sen Vice President Lyman D. Wilbur, who runs the operation from a windowless, green-painted office at No. 2 Duy-Tan Street in Saigon: "We think...
...industries as shipbuilding, aircraft and aerospace, metals, machinery and tools. In many cities, there is also a growing scarcity of teachers, nurses, social-welfare workers and even typists. Labor pirating by firms has broken out in the Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor Don B. Betts recently hired an 83-year-old carpenter...
...redundant?" His father, George Nelson Lindsay, was the son of a Scotch-Irish brickmaker from the Isle of Wight who went broke in 1884 and emigrated to New York. John Lindsay'? mother, Eleanor Vliet Lindsay, was the daughter of a Dutch-descended New Jersey carpentry contractor whose ancestors dated back to colonial times...