Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity this country has given me to make a place in the world for myself," said Danish-born Peter Strobel in June 1954 to Washington newsmen. "By taking this job perhaps I can partly pay back this country." With that, Strobel left Strobel & Salzman, a Manhattan engineering partnership that paid him about $100,000 annually, for the $14,800-a-year job of Public Buildings Commissioner in the General Services Administration. As such, Strobel had charge of letting millions of dollars of contracts...
...Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D. will share the $361 million cost of the Priest River Dam with the Federal Government, making the dam the first under President Eisenhower's public-private "partnership" policy...
...partnership with other oil firms, Conoco has leased 587,000 acres of offshore land, more than any other U.S. company. In the race for the estimated 12 billion barrels of oil under the Gulf waters, Conoco ranks...
...Pietro Nenni, 64, the yeasty, eloquent leader of Italy's Red Socialists. Ever since the center-right Christian Democratic coalition proved itself unstable, Italian politicians have been hypnotized by the possibility of an alliance with Nenni's party. But could Nenni be detached from his warm partnership with Palmiro Togliatti and the Communists? Some said he could be, some said he could not. Nenni simply said: Why don't you try me and find...
...Coon argued that in view of congressional reluctance to pay for John Day, his bill was the only way to get it. Neuberger argued that no matter how long it took to get the dam, private utilities should not get the profits. Said he: "It isn't a partnership when one of the partners is allowed to swallow the other . . . I wouldn't care who owned General Motors if I could just have all the autos that come off the production line for the next 50 years...