Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending an intermediary to lease them for an anonymous project...
...Contractor Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., ex-New Deal favorite, appeared in Atlanta with a black eye. To curious friends he handed a printed card: "... I was helping an old crippled lady . . . when her crutch slipped . . . and hit me in the eye. If you don't believe this, ask Evie [his wife], she doesn't either...
...Army game, extravagant equipment rentals (paid for by the Government), is being played all over again: a Washington, D.C. contractor rented a $4,200 tractor for $3,907.42 and a truck valued at $425 for $414.34; a Chicago contractor paid $1,023 rent on a $1,400 truck; a New Jersey contractor rented a 1927 dump truck valued...
...wiring, plumbing), zinc (for galvanized tanks and pipes), iron & steel (for reinforcements, hardware, screens, heating equipment). In some districts, due chiefly to transport difficulties, there have been shortages of lumber, glass, cement. In Atlanta recently, a builder had to make a 40-mile trip to find nails. In Chicago, Contractor Charles Joern stopped taking new orders 30 days ago; John Lindop will give no guarantees of completion date, insists on an escape clause in all contracts. In San Francisco the Associated Homebuilders have contemplated a 75% curtailment...
Died. Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, 85, Canada's biggest financier, one of its wealthiest men; in Montreal. Born in Ireland's County Kildare, he emigrated to Canada at 19, rose from railroad laborer to contractor to utilities magnate by the age of 45, when he organized Montreal Light, Heat & Power Co., now capitalized at $64,000,000. He became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, increased its assets more than tenfold, organized the $100,000,000 Canada Power & Paper Corp., went into textiles, mining, insurance, railways, in his lifetime shared control with his associates of some...