Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the Alexander Kielland appeared to be a marvel of modern marine engineering. Built in 1976 by the Compagnie Française d'Entreprises Métalliques, based in Paris, the pentagonal 10,105-ton platform was leased and operated by Phillips Petroleum Co., the major contractor for oil and natural gas prospecting in the rich Edda field. For the rotating crews that lived there for two weeks at a time, it was intended to be a floating city-a sort of workingman's Titanic. And like the Titanic, the Alexander Kielland was theoretically invulnerable. Says Jakob...
...perhaps $2 billion in increased revenues that the company is expected to earn as the project's overseer and prime contractor comes at a time when the firm is already in an updraft of high-flying riches. From $5.5 billion in 1978, Boeing's sales climbed 49% in 1979 to a stunning $8.1 billion. Profits rose proportionately even more, to $505 million, an increase of 57% over the previous year. In the past two weeks alone Boeing has sold $1 billion worth of planes to airlines as diverse as Ansett in Australia, Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong...
...ended last week the five-week trial of John Wayne Gacy, 38, who was accused of murdering more people than anyone else in U.S. history. A building contractor who lived outside Chicago in Norwood Park, Gacy appeared to be a friendly neighbor who delighted in entertaining kids by dressing up as Pogo the Clown. But in December 1978, when police questioned him about the disappearance of a local 15-year-old named Robert Piest, Gacy began jabbering about a seven-year career of murder, of picking up boys and young men, forcing them to perform sexual acts and then strangling...
Armed with a metal detector, and counseled by his daughter's history schoolbook, a 38-year-old Irish building contractor set out to search for buried trea sure in County Tipperary. Near the town of Killenaule, not far from the ruins of sev eral medieval monasteries, and barely a foot below the surface of a bog, he made an astonishing discovery: a complete set of Communion vessels dating from the 8th or early 9th century. The choicest piece was a two-handled silver chalice, 8 in. high and ornamented with gold filigree and amber studs. With it, the contractor...
...circumstances of concealment are important under Irish law. If the buried treasure was intended for later recovery, then it becomes state property. But if the courts hold that the vessels were lost or abandoned, then the operative rule is "finders keepers." In that case, the contractor (whose name has not been revealed) could go home with his afternoon's discoveries, which have been conservatively valued at $4 million...