Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Thompson-"Big Bill the Builder"-sought a fourth term in a campaign in which he flayed Prohibition, harped on waterway development, abused the Chicago Tribune and his opponents. His famed "King George" issue was played down. Into the Loop his limping, bulky racoon-coated figure led his parade of bands, elephants, cowboys, burros, mules to block traffic for hours. At his rallies he shook a halter at pop-eyed crowds, loudly denied that he, unlike his rival, was tethered to the Press. When his speeches grew so vicious that local papers refused to carry them, he screamed more insanely...
Campagna. Potent Manhattan Builder & Wrecker Anthony Campagna (he wrecked the $6,000,000 Clark Mansion on Fifth Avenue) was created a count by Italy's King Yittorio Emanuele...
...Engineers met to ponder the problem of bracing skyscrapers against the winds of heaven. Professor Clarence Richard Young, structural engineer at the University of Toronto, read the report of the Society's subcommittee No. 31, "On Wind Bracing in Steel Buildings." To be safe, said Professor Young, a builder must brace his skyscraper for a wind pressure of 20 Ib. per sq. ft. for the first 500 ft. of height. Then he must allow for an increase of 2 Ib. per sq. ft. in each additional 100 ft. of height. The highest wind velocity Mr. Young and his subcommittee...
Stouts. As he often does, William Bushnell Stout, famed builder of Ford metal transports, flew last week at Dearborn, Mich., with his daughter Wilma, 19, in his own Fleet biplane. The glare of sun on snow blinded him as he glided to a landing on Ford Airport. The rolling plane struck a rut, nosed over, administered severe headcuts to Father & Daughter Stout...
...older society be given the rights of the male; that is, the giving of the name to the family." Famed Tau Beta Pi members include: Robert Andrews Millikan,* Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Leo Hendrick Baekeland (bakelite),* President Harold Sherburne Boardman of University of Maine, the late George Washington Goethals (builder of Panama Canal),* the late Charles Proteus Steinmetz,* John Hays Hammond,† Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's engineering college,* the late Elmer Ambrose Sperry.† Architect Irving Kane Pond, Bridge Builder Ralph Modjeski,* President Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories,*President Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh University...