Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three were arrested for "drunkenness" along with ten others seized in the bar, reportedly built and run by a local carpenter. Twelve Roxbury policemen, including six "special squad members," took part in the raid...
...Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York, and the pay, when fees and traveling expenses are deducted, usually amounts to only several hundred dollars. An artist caught in the community-concert treadmill usually deserts the field after a few years or is nudged out by management on the theory that the public wants...
...against each other, get him a contract "that'll guarantee that if I go in one day and want to play Clair de lune, they'll have to record it." Last week RCA Victor gave him one of the fattest contracts ever offered a young artist, with built-in guarantees for "longterm security." Within hours Van's concert fee jumped from $1,000 to $2,500 plus, shortly became a deal whereby Cliburn gets 60% of the receipts. Dallas outstripped everybody else by booking a concert from which Van stands to walk away with $9,000. Said...
...bottom because I wouldn't stay away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear, and you could stand...
...brothers inherited the business just before Pearl Harbor, turned to building for the Government. When peace came, they cashed in on the veterans' housing boom, built an average of $6,500,000 worth of houses a year by pricing their houses about $1,000 less than their competitors. Like other big builders, they trimmed construction costs by doing their own concrete and roadwork, are always alert to save even pennies; recently they saved 45^ a house by rerouting an electrical conduit...