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Word: contractor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department, in Charge of the Maine project, issued denials. Army officers declared that only no loaves of bread a day had been purchased at 'Quoddy in July, denied that any pie had ever been purchased, got an affidavit from William Doyle, 'Quoddy's garbage contractor, who solemnly swore: "At no time have I ever seen pie in the garbage or swill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Pies & Pigs | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cotton & King | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Fact is, the bronzed, silver-thatched speed-on-water champion (124.91 m.p.h.) is the head of a Detroit industrial family which is as tightly-knit, if not so potent, as the Fisher Brothers. There are twelve children in the Wood family, nine of them boys. One is a retired contractor. The other eight own and run Gar Wood Industries. Inc., which is no misnomer. Last week the Brothers Wood let the public in for the first time with an offer of 320.000 shares of their company's 800,000 shares of stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wood Workers | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...Henry Hunter), released after a two-year term for an automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache by a political contractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richardson v. Richardsonian | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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