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...Manhattan dissension arose in the ranks of the Company's directors. Major General George Washington Goethals (Panama Canal constructor), Frederick S. Blackall, F. B. Potter, H. C. Sheridan, A. S. Robert severed their connection with the Chester Concession. Commander Arthur Chester, son of Admiral Chester who obtained the concession which bears his name from the Turkish Government, repudiated the management of the concern and said that the " false and misleading statements made by Colonel Clayton-Kennedy and his associates" were bringing ruin upon the project. The dispute arose because the directors could not agree as to the best methods...
...American Construction Council surveys the entire industry. And gradually it is evolving a code of construction ethics, so that eventually the plumber will cease to be the classic example of robbery-within-the-law. Simultaneously, the Council is educating the 99,000,000 people who are not constructors or constructor's wives. In normal times it teaches them, for instance, when to build, when not to. Apartments and office buildings must be built according to renting seasons which for the first is October, and for the second, February. But public buildings, private houses, industrial plants should be built...
Howard Chandler Christy, popular constructor of girls' heads for magazine covers, completed his portrait of President Harding. The picture will be placed on board the Leviathan, to cross and recross the Atlantic in the largest ship afloat when it is put in service this Summer by the United States Shipping Board...
...United States government at the present time is probably the largest constructor in the world. The estimates for architectural, engineering, and public works for 1921 amount to $788,816,229. Under the present organization, the expenditure of this sum is under the control of 39 separate agencies. There is a duplication and overlapping of functions; the departments doing similar work compete with one another before Congress for appropriations, and afterwards compete with each other for labor, materials and supplies...
...courses which are being given in the Graduate School of Business Administration began last Monday. One of these on "Ordnance Stores Keeping," is given by Naval Constructor F. G. Coburn, Mr. H. H. Farquhar and others. The other is on "Military Cost Inspection," and is being given by accountants from Boston firms...