Word: constructor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best to take all the joy out of his and their children's life from then on. But 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...
Died, Rear Admiral Washington Lee Capps, 71, retired, onetime Chief Constructor of the U. S. Navy, chief of its Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1903 to 1910; of heart disease; in Washington. On Admiral Dewey's staff during the Spanish-American War, he supervised raising and repairing Spanish vessels captured in the battle of Manila Bay. As Chief Constructor he evolved the all-big-gun ship, the skeleton mast which became a distinctive feature of U. S. warcraft...
Died. Sir John Harvard Biles, 79, "greatest living authority on naval architecture," onetime naval constructor of the British Admiralty, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England...
Commerce's Chapin: "The trend of industrial production, prices, employment, pay rolls, merchandise distribution, foreign trade, and constructor was downward throughout the year Output was the smallest for any fiscal post-War period. . . . Foreign trade declined in value to the lowest level since pre-War years...
...that time a busy business man and Dallas' foremost constructor. He owns the twin 20-story Medical Arts Buildings which, although not Dallas' tallest, are its biggest. On their top floors is the Gary Clinic, one of the country's best. The Gary Clinic now constitutes his chief contact with practical medicine. He is nominally eye & ear man for three railroads. He is head of the A. P. Gary surgical supply house which his brother established, and of the Cary-Schneider Investment Co. which looks after the family's general business interests. Right now he is guiding Dallas...