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...contracts (or $100,000 per billion dollars). He said that 90% of Lindsay Warren's 270 items had either been detected and disallowed by the Army itself or subsequently approved by GAO. The false teeth, said Mr. Patterson, were due to a Navy-not Army-order that a contractor's technicians take an extra pair along to Russia (together with extra glasses) because such medical minutiae are unobtainable there. "While I hold no brief for the dog," concluded Judge Patterson, "does an item of $1.39 really justify a charge of incompetence...
Died. Patrick Austin ("Paddy") Nash, 80, both Nash and dash of Chicago's famed Kelly-Nash political machine; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of an Irish immigrant contractor, short, derbied Nash moved early to the West Side, whose con trol he gradually took over from his political tutor, the 28th (then 14th) Ward's famed Roger Sullivan. Until nearly...
...Profits: When contracts are canceled reasonable profits are allowed, based upon the amount of work done. Thus, a contractor entitled to $200,000 profits on an order would be entitled to about $100,000 if the contract were canceled when half completed. But the profit in all cases depends finally upon the "sound judgment" of the contracting officer...
...Stoppage: The contractor is required to stop production as soon as he is notified of cancellation. At his discretion, he can complete half-finished articles to make them salable, rather than force them to be junked...
...married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...