Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everyone in Washington thought it was safe last week - except OPAdministrator Chester Bowles. More inflation-conscious now than ever, Bowles argued that abolishing L41 gave contractors the right to build houses on speculation, sell them on the open real-estate market. Since OPA could control a contractor's profits only if he built a house for a private individual, this, said Bowles, would make the sky the only price ceiling...
...only way to fight inflation is by production. Reconversion and re-employment would be greatly expedited by encouraging construction to the limit, since the building industry normally accounts for about 5% of the total U.S. employment. And high production would in turn create so much competition that any contractor who let prices get out of hand would just be cutting his own throat...
...used to be. Besides Outfielder Tommy Holmes, who is the National League's fancy .402 batting leader, this year's edition offers some promising rookies and a brand-new home-run aptitude (thanks, partly, to a shortened right-field fence). The Braves also have a new boss, Contractor Louis Perini, who seems bent on buying new talent...
...shifted to the Pacific, said he was "unable to agree" with Winston Churchill). ¶ A bulldoggish attitude about Army promotions ("I'm not going to just rubber-stamp everything they bring up"). ¶ A miniature political tempest when a rival in the 1942 campaign charged that a Louisville contractor had built a swimming pool in his backyard as a gift. (Happy was cleared...
Richard Arnell is the son of a British contractor who opposed his son's music career. In 1939, after studies at the Royal College of Music in London, the young composer decided to burn his early manuscripts and try his luck elsewhere. He picked the U.S. for his future. In New York he taught composition, served as a music consultant to BBC, and became a protege of Sir Thomas Beecham. In the past three years Sir Thomas has performed his young compatriot's Sinfonia and his First Symphony...