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Greenback. For President, 72-year-old Seattle Grocer Frederick Proehl; for Vice President, Edward J. Bedell, Indianapolis contractor. The Greenbackers, who favor immediate abolition of Government bonds and issuance of paper money unbacked by metal reserves, had 14 Representatives in the Congress of 1878. This year, admits Proehl, they "won't make much of a scratch." Grocer Proehl is not discouraged, however. "The great majority of my customers," said he recently, "feel that it is quite an honor to do business with a presidential candidate...
...serious risk of radiation sickness, greeted the new federal invasion with unalloyed enthusiasm. Land prices were already soaring in anticipation of an eventual influx of 4,000-5,000 permanent employees of the new plant and 30,000 construction workers who will be brought in by major contractor Peter Kiewit Sons' Co. of Omaha (see BUSINESS) and a covey of architects and designers. In Piketon, the owner of a small hotel announced that she had been offered $30,000 for her business, added thoughtfully: "It isn't worth $15,000." Said County Sheriff Jesse Foster: "The very first...
Peter Kiewit is a 51-year-old Omaha contractor whose motto is: "No job is too big or too small." Three years ago, while grossing more than $100 million a year. Kiewit lived up to half of his motto. He won a contract to resurface three rural Nebraska streets. Cost: $1,500. Last week, Kiewit lived up to the other half. He got the second biggest single construction contract ever awarded.* Kiewit's new job: the $1.2 billion uranium plant for the Atomic Energy Commission in southern Ohio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Contractor Kiewit (pronounced key-wit), whose builder father left a small company with $25,000 in assets to three sons, has been moving mountains of earth since he took over the company in 1931. He got up from a hospital bed to do so. Young Kiewit, who learned bricklaying in high-school days and quit Dartmouth as a freshman to become a builder, had been stricken by phlebitis followed by serious complications. After lying on his back in a hospital for nine months, he decided: "If I'm going to die. I might as well die working...
Extra Precaution. In Los Angeles, when University of Southern California Professor Kenneth L. Trefftzs hired a contractor to build him a fireproof roof, a tar melting machine caught fire and burned down his house...