Word: builder
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Hopkins too was a master builder. The WPA created New York's La Guardia Airport, for example, and restored the St. Louis riverfront. But the most remarkable aspect of the WPA was its willingness to put people to work at their own trades (average wage: $50 to $60 a month) and to try anything. The WPA excavated Indian burial grounds in New Mexico, translated and indexed French and Spanish records in New Orleans, operated the bankrupt city of Key West, Fla. Unemployed writers like Conrad Aiken and John Cheever were put to work creating the American Guide series. Artists...
...another humanist crying out against the inroads of technology. He knows science well enough to be playful about it. He understands that the weakest link in any theory may be the theoretician. His message is not glum but comic: if a perfect machine ever arose, miraculously, from its imperfect builder, no one would trust...
Robert Moses, 92, master builder and powerbroker of New York City and State for 50 years, whose monuments include 35 highways, twelve bridges, more than 2.5 million acres of park land, Lincoln Center and the 1964-65 World's Fair. His vision inspired the reshaping-some said misshaping-of urban and suburban space across America...
Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's architect and builder of monuments to the Third Reich who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, used slave labor to keep the German war machine running. The only Nazi leader to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, he served 20 years before his release...
Bogart Jackson hadn't been listening, but occasionally the words came back to him when he watched grounds crews mixing green food coloring with turf builder...