Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that forbids racial discrimination. A year ago, said Meany, he offered Labor Secretary James Mitchell a chance to help break the color bar on a big Washington urban-renewal project. The offer: if Mitchell, who is vice chairman of the President's Committee, would put pressure on the contractor, the Truland Electrical Contracting Co., Meany would put pressure on Local 26 by providing nonunion Negro electricians. Meany said he got no reply from Mitchell on the offer; Mitchell said he does not recall that Meany made the offer in the first place...
...deterrence of war . . . and our ability to withstand nuclear blackmail." Estimated cost of Rocky's program: $1.5 billion. On a do-it-yourseli basis, a homeowner with a basement might build his shelter for about $50 a person; he would pay at least twice as much if a contractor did the job. To sweeten the plan, shelters would be exempt from local real estate taxes and construction costs could be deducted from state income tax. "Put the overall program into effect as soon as possible," urged the study committee. "We may have less time than we think." "The legislature...
Last week Greenleaf signed a new contract to provide Beirut's airport restaurant with 750,000 fresh eggs a year. A British contractor asked Greenleaf to set up a vast poultry farm in Libya (on a percentage basis). A businessman in Saudi Arabia, anxious to furnish Mecca with fresh eggs, offered Greenleaf a similar contract. At a subsidiary farm near Shiraz, Iran, Greenleaf stepped up production to supply Iran's egg market. This week Greenleaf also made its first shipment of eggs to Aramco in Saudi Arabia, which now imports them from Australia. Predicted Stevenson: in 1960 Greenleaf...
...almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse), he discovers that the hole has been filled in by his friendly contractor (John McGiver). At that very moment, in fact, the contractor knocks on his door, then casually walks off with the essential shovel. Moments later a real estate agent appears with somebody who wants to look at the house. Then the phone rings. And even after the poor slaphappy slayer manages...
Totting up the list of its biggest suppliers last week, the Pentagon announced that General Dynamics Corp. surpassed Boeing Aircraft to become the nation's No. 1 defense contractor last year...