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...merely picketed the job, they said, to win bargaining rights for their affiliated United Construction Workers. But after hearing witnesses testify that they had been threatened and forced off the job, a circuit court jury found the miners guilty of exceeding "the limits of peaceful picketing," awarded the contractor $275,437 in damages...
...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...
...being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts of a born politician and a hearty love of power. Working his way up in Chicago's Sanitary District from tree-chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago...
Texas. In Houston, where two wealthy householders have already built bomb shelters, a contractor sent out 7,500 brochures advertising a $2,000, igloo-shaped shelter that can house ten people. A Teaneck, N.J. concrete company advertised that bomb shelters "won't be a total loss even if there are no atomic-bomb explosions, because they can be used as wine cellars or utility rooms...
Thanks, But ... In Pulaski, N.Y., a committee to raise funds for dredging the channel between Big Sandy Pond and Lake Ontario learned from U.S. Army engineers that the job would cost about $250,000, decided to accept a local contractor...