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Hiram W. Evans, big-time Georgia contractor and onetime Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, got a bill from the Treasury for $257,763.27 in back taxes...
...years Ed Kelly and Pat Nash, the sewer contractor, had run Chicago. That was a long time. Now Pat was dead, and the Boss was 70. The committeemen watched as Corporation Counsel Barnet Hodes whispered in the Boss...
...plugged a break by pouring in the only material handy, 130,000,000 Ibs. of kaoliang (sorghum), sacrificing today's food for the hope of tomorrow's. A few days later bandits dynamited a stone quarry and kidnaped ten workers; the bandits had been hired by a contractor whose theory was : why spoil a good thing by finishing...
...started buying again. He concentrated on class hotels because "it costs no more for maids to clean an $8 room than for a $3 one." He picked up the Nacional in Cuba, the Beverly Wilshire and the Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...
...Kaiser bought title to Eagle Mountain from the Southern Pacific railroad for $1,000,000. But it was encumbered by a lease on the iron deposits held by Edward T. Foley, closemouthed, hard-driving contractor who does a world-wide construction business from a side-street office in Pasadena...