Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paint was hardly dry when a wealthy Des Moines contractor and art collector named James S. Carpenter bought the picture and hauled it off to his Iowa home (the Des Moines Art Center paid his widow $12,000 for it in 1941). When Bellows heard about the purchase, he exclaimed: "Where is the man who bought it? I want to kiss him on both cheeks...
...resigned from the War Assets Ad ministration in November 1946. Last April he refused to answer 178 times to questions asked him by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. With William Ullmann as his business partner and housemate, Silvermaster now lives at Harvey Cedars, N.J., where he is a building contractor...
...strife, a colorless candidate and an inept campaign put practically all of the local issues on the Democratic side. The Democrats ably seized the advantage and held it. Their nominee, Lawyer Robert Baumle Meyner, a bachelor from Phillipsburg (pop. 19,000), beat Republican Nominee Paul Troast, a wealthy building contractor, by 154,000 votes...
...county bosses finally selected Paul Lyman Troast, 58, a wealthy building contractor from Passaic, pushed him through a bitter, party-splitting primary last April. Troast, with no political experience, was known principally for his chairmanship of the commission that built the $220 million New Jersey Turnpike. But his campaigning has been as flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered...
...building, now nearly half completed, is being constructed and will be owned by Samuel W. Poorvu, contractor, according to specifications provided by the government...