Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
...Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, 46, was receptive to a good business enterprise. A 41-year-old Manhattan contractor & builder named Harold Alexander Ley had an inviting idea. The shrewd, vigorous pair conferred, organized the Life Extension Institute with $150,000 capital. Contractor Ley made himself president. Professor Fisher made himself chairman of a Hygiene Reference Board and induced some of the most important medical men of the land to serve under him without pay. Purpose of the Life Extension Institute was to give thoroughgoing medical examinations to all comers at $15 and up. Licensed doctors employed by the Life...
Flemington has been on the newspaper map ever since the kidnapping occurred. It was a base of police operations and, after the baby's corpse was found, the place where pettifogging Boat-Builder John H. Curtis of Norfolk was tried for fraud after he led Col. Lindbergh on a wild goose chase for his son. But even the citizens of Flemington were not prepared for the sort of life & death contest which was about to be staged in their town. The 100-year-old courthouse seats only 250 people in all. More than 400 reporters and special correspondents have...
Associated with Lawyer Reilly is a local attorney named Lloyd Fisher who defended Boat-Builder Curtis. Prime witnesses for the defense are Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Christiansen, in whose Bronx bakeshop Anna Hauptmann worked at the time of the crime. He is expected to testify that Hauptmann called for Anna there on the night of the kidnapping...
Last week Pilot Breese's $8,000 dive brought Builder Northrop the biggest Army aircraft order in years - no attack planes at a cost of $1,896,400. The new Northrops all-metal, low-wing monoplanes have a topspeed of nearly 280 m.p.h., will probably be powered with the new Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp double-bank radial engines. Well pleased at his bargain was Builder Northrop as he handed Pilot Breese $8,000 for his 15 seconds' work...