Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, a building contractor and amateur ballplayer, passed on to him the tools of his two trades-a carpenter's saw and a fast ball. By the time he was ten, Del knew his way around a scaffolding or an infield with equal aplomb. "I can't remember not being captain of the team," he says. "When we chose sides for a pick-up game, I was always one of the guys who did the choosing...
...with a crunch of cracked ribs and torn ligaments, sliding home from second on a short single, followed by a bout of typhoid fever that brought his weight down from 204 Ibs. to 99 Ibs. When he was on his feet again, he landed a job with a small contractor in Phoenix. One day, when he was working on the construction of a new grocery store, his paycheck bounced, and his employer disappeared. The grocer asked young Webb to take over the job, and the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was born. Its total assets: one cement mixer, ten wheelbarrows...
Confirmed as the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed...
...general can hire hundreds of "technicians." fulltime state employees of the Guard whose salaries are paid by the Federal Government. In addition, a skillful Governor can often add a new armory or two every few years for deserving towns; federal funds meet 75% of the cost, and a local contractor usually gets the job. Georgia has built 65 armories during the past decade under a plan mapped out by Governor Vandiver when he was adjutant general...
Died. Erwin Service Wolfson, 60, co-founder and top executive of Diesel Construction Co., an Ohio pantsmaker's son who became a prime mover in the skyscraper boom that has altered Manhattan's skyline, topped off his career as contractor and investor with the world's largest commercial office building-the 59-story, $100 million Pan Am Building; of cancer; in Purchase...