Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaders, headed by reactionary, hulking William L. Hutcheson of Indianapolis, president of the carpenters' union (300,000 members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership of the union [carpenters] had the interests of the public and the welfare of labor at heart...
...Nerves. Thus the typical Nazi build-up prior to invasion had begun, and the excuses that Adolf Hitler's Government would give in case the Führer did invade The Netherlands or Belgium could be anticipated. Instead of declaring that "necessity knows no law" or asking "what's in a scrap of paper?" as she did last time, Germany's reasoning would be that, by submitting to the British "tyranny on the seas," Belgium and The Netherlands were, in effect, no longer neutrals but had really become British-dominated territory-hence, a proper object of attack...
When asked whether any definite crew had been picked, he stated that some fellows were possibilities because of their build, but that any others had just as much chance. "What really counts is the winter rowing in the tanks. That's most important because you're right under our supervision, and we can show you your mistakes and teach you how to overcome them...
...YORK--Selling in leading industrial shares, purported to have come from the Allied Powers which are attempting to build up dollar balances in this country for the purchase of war materials, brought a reaction into the stock market today after early firmness...
...Parry's story is mostly about the Major and his times. Son of the founder and first commandant of Fort Dearborn (later Chicago), a handsome soldier and famous engineer, constructor of the then marvelous Western Railroad of Massachusetts, Major Whistler was engaged by Tsar Nicholas in 1842 to build Russia's first long-distance railroad - from St. Petersburg to Moscow...