Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foundations are now being completed in the excavation, which had lain untouched during the period of the hearings. Three laborers and two carpenters work on the project from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily, along with a steam shovel crew. The Niles Contractor Company of Newton is in charge of the construction. The church should be completed in nine months...
Life With Father. The indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
...described, from a destitute U.S. parish to the Pope's chambers. Church politics are examined, from curates parochial gripes to Vatican policy on Hitler and Mussolini. Figures in the novel include three Popes, many cardinals and archbishops whom readers may think they recognize, a powerful Boston-Irish contractor and political boss, high personages in prewar Italian society...
Divorced. By Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 31, toothy, Texas-born songstress of radio & screen: Hyatt Robert Dehn, 40, building contractor, who was dropped from New York's Social Register when he married Ginny; after nearly five years of marriage, two sons; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...lists names but no party affiliations, and drop that ballot into a sealed box. The man he chooses may live and vote in another constituency, but will certainly not be a lord, a member of the clergy, an employe of the government, a lunatic, an alien, or a government contractor...