Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story tower of white stone that will some day be the city's new $12.9 million federal office building. For now, it stands as a monument to the power of the Buffalo Mafia. It is unfinished, one year behind schedule and at least two months from completion; the contractor's losses have mounted to $500,000 while 30 Government agencies wait to move in. Reason for the delays: the Mob in Buffalo has a chokehold on Local 210 of the International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers' Union of America and, as a result, on the construction...
Trouble at the building site began almost as soon as ground was broken. The Government's general contractor, J.W. Bateson Co., of Dallas, started construction in the fall of 1968. When the work crew arrived from Local 210, a convicted bookie was on hand to serve as union foreman. The union official in charge of keeping time cards for the laborers was 300-lb. Sammy Lagattuta. His stout figure is a familiar one to police. He is at present awaiting trial on a federal charge of loan-sharking conspiracy...
...nation's biggest defense contractor was fighting for its life, and Congress had seldom before seen such frenzied lobbying. As the argument mounted last week over the proposal for the Government to guarantee $250 million in loans to the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Nixon Administration officials placed calls around the country to sympathetic bankers and industrialists. Those men, in turn, phoned their Congressmen and urged them to vote for the bailout. Machinists and scientists bought newspaper ads. Aerospace workers, some of whom lost their jobs after amateur lobbyists effectively organized an anti-SST drive last spring, rallied to Lockheed...
Died. Harry W. Morrison, 86, co-founder and former chairman of one of the world's largest construction companies, Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., of a stroke; in Boise, Idaho. Though he was only 27, hard-hustling Morrison talked himself into a partnership with 50-year-old Contractor Morris Knudsen in 1912. Their starting capital of $600 in cash was pyramided into a global $500 million-a-year building concern. Among Morrison's construction triumphs: Hoover Dam and portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
MILESTONES Married. Candy Mossier, 51, the softspoken, blonde Georgia belle who, after her sensational 1966 trial on a charge of murdering her 69-year-old millionaire husband Jacques Mossier, was acquitted along with Nephew Melvin Lane Powers; and Barnett Garrison, 32, an electrical contractor; she for the third, he for the second time; in Houston...