Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James R. Muenger, 18, of 610 Nesslewood avenue, Toledo, O.; Scott High School; son of Frederick J. Muenger, contractor; ranked first among the boys in his class, was editor of the school annual, and took a leading part in school activities...
...speedy locomotion. This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused an astonishing revival of the sport. Last year...
This week in Virginia City merger of four of the most fabulous Comstock mines will be broached-Ophir, Mexican, Andes and Consolidated Virginia. Only "Eastern interest" to admit his connection with the deal was John Jacob Raskob, identified in the local Press as a "New York contractor." With his wife, the onetime Democratic National chairman was at nearby Lake Tahoe...
...banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor. President Grant dedicated the site for a $200,000 stake tabernacle, departed in another burst of alohas...
...three, four years past due, weeded them out, put the paper on a cash-in-advance basis. On the theory that men & women are creatures of habit, he concentrated on the problem of getting the Register to them on time. Helped by his oldtime experience as an overland mail contractor. Publisher Cowles studied maps and railroad timetables, learned the location of every town and hamlet in Iowa, memorized the schedules of every train out of Des Moines. As the Register circulation machine began to work, a Register-habit grew steadily throughout the State. At the end of the first year...