Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser bought title to Eagle Mountain from the Southern Pacific railroad for $1,000,000. But it was encumbered by a lease on the iron deposits held by Edward T. Foley, closemouthed, hard-driving contractor who does a world-wide construction business from a side-street office in Pasadena...
Hollywood Pin-Up," an aluminum clothespin. Its inventors were two neighbors in Van Nuys, Calif., who got tired of hearing their wives grumble about ersatz clothespins. Alcoa helped them perfect the pin, licensed them to use its color process, "Alumilite," at a nominal royalty. Del E. Webb, contractor and co-owner of the New York Yankees, financed them. Last week, the Del E. Webb Products Co. was busy shipping out 80,000 pins a day, expects to use 2,500,000 pounds of aluminum a year...
...addresses were homes. Dr. John J. Dwyer 1) found his old apartment house no longer available for doctors' offices; 2) learned that a former medical building was now full of lawyers and optometrists; 3) made an architect laugh when he suggested remodeling a store; 4) made a contractor laugh when he suggested buying and fixing up a building for doctors' offices; 5) wound up in a dentist's tiny storeroom...
Nobody who reads Bringing Up Father can be sure whether Jiggs is a first name or a last (McManus doesn't know either), or how Jiggs made his money (McManus thinks he must have been an Irish contractor, since so many of his friends are hod carriers and steel workers). But of some things they may be sure, like their parents before them: Jiggs can't stand his wife's friends, lives in daily fear of her well-aimed rolling pin and crockery, but will never hit back. And there will never be a continued story...
...hitherto suppressed portion of the Army Pearl Harbor Board report, Regular Army officer Wyman and his great & good friend Hans Wilhelm Rohl, a German-alien contractor, were accused of ". . . a scale of riotous living, drunkenness and both private and public misconduct . . . together." Rohl, on whose yacht Wyman frequently made what he called "inspection trips," was awarded many Army contracts in Hawaii in 1940-41, even though he was not always the lowest bidder...