Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard man named Sir George Downing; despite repeated patching and propping, its floors and walls have tilted and sagged. Sir Winston Churchill, who has tried both No. 10 and No. 11, long ago called down a plague on both houses as "shaky and lightly built by the profiteering contractor whose name they bear...
...small business with fewer than 1,000 employees usually fares badly against the giants. But last week the missile industry was abuzz over little Acoustica Associates, Inc. (sales for the fiscal year ending February 1960: $8,106,788), which became the first small business to be chosen a prime contractor for the operational Atlas missile system...
Philadelphia Contractor John B. Kelly Sr., who died last month at 70, left a self-drawn last will and testament just as fabulous and full of fun as most of his life. Happy Jack Kelly, up from hod carrying to become a millionaire and father of a Princess, wanted no squabbling over his estate. All his legatees knew in advance exactly what he meant to leave them. With that matter out of the way, Kelly sat down and penned words of wit and wisdom. To his sons-in-law (including Monaco's Prince Rainier), he left nary a penny...
Died. Joshua Ringle, 69, roofing contractor for Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, St. Patrick's Cathedral and Grand Central Terminal, and a New Jersey Republican leader who in 1953-after three losing campaigns against the Democratic Hague machine-became one of the first members of his party to be elected to the Jersey City Commission; after a long illness; in Jersey City...
...Hayes had first avoided paying him for renting several pieces of earth-moving equipment, then offered him 50? on the dollar-and withdrew the offer after Lowry accepted. Last September, County Judge Woodrow Bean wrote to President Eisenhower, Senator Lyndon Johnson and others charging that "the conduct of the contractor has established a pattern which indicates a deliberate plan not to pay for equipment rented." 34-Minute House. Hayes has been an unusual operator in the construction industry from the start. When his builder father fell on hard times in the Depression, ij-year-old Hal took...