Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competent leader must carefully choose musicians for his band. Every contractor has his own idea about the type men he wants, and naturally picks them to especially fit his particular style. In so doing, he must not destroy the means of identifying his music. It isn't always easy, by the way, to find such men on short notice. Musicians, like bands, have their own style, and this is important in making up the personnel of the band. Sometimes one who plays well, doesn't fit in another capacity and vice versa; thus, all details must be carefully scrutinized...
Century ago Colonel Claude Crozet, curly-haired, black-whiskered soldier of Napoleon, State Engineer of Virginia, became first president of the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute. On November 11, 1839, 32 cadets were admitted to the new school. The contractor had not finished building the barracks, and snow had fallen before he was through. Food was scarce. The cadets decided to go home. If they had, V. M. I. would not have celebrated its centennial last week...
...Dorothy W. Baruch has had both amateur and professional experience in raising children. The wife of a Los Angeles contractor, she brought up two of her own, Herbert, now 18, and Nancy, 15. She is also director of a nursery school at Broadoaks School of Education, Whittier College in California. While she raised her children, 107-lb. Mrs. Baruch got three college degrees, taught at Broadoaks, wrote 13 children's books (her latest: a Pinocchio based on Walt Disney' s forthcoming movie), scribbled verse, traveled abroad, swam, rode and played tennis...
Remarkable is Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...
Last week Vice President Young, who resigned from Breeze in July, went to Grand Rapids to start anew as a munitions salesman, hoped to make Hayes Body a regular contractor to the U. S. Government...