Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston...
...cheap land (near the Negro quarter), with union labor, standard materials and a satisfactory profit to the contractor, he put up a one-story structure bounding three sides of a rectangle with a sunken grass court (Powell & Morgan, architects). Ten living units of four rooms & bath each have individual front doors opening in this court. Each unit has its own heating plant. There are no garages. Rent: $25 per month per unit, or $6.25 per room...
...Albany, Calif., Contractor G. De Gaeta bought two lots, started to put up two houses. When the second house was almost finished, Builder De Gaeta found he had built the houses on someone else's property, a full block from the land he had bought...
...place: Manhattan's U. S. Assay Office. The strikers: A. F. of L. armored-car guards, who wanted to ride (at union pay) with U. S. Coast Guardsmen stationed on trucks hauling silver bullion to West Point, N.Y. (TIME, July 11). The winner: Contractor Peter James Malley Jr., who continued to haul U. S. silver under U. S. gun & guard...
...small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last week, in the idle elevator shaft, installed and ready to operate...