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...perfunctorily, Boss Flynn picked a middle-aged lawyer named Karl Propper, who looks a little like Movie Comic Hugh Herbert. Democratic chieftains, watching the A.L.P. splinter over the Wallace third-party candidacy, figured Propper as a shoo-in. Republicans merely went through the motions: they nominated an unknown building contractor and the G.O.P. boss left town for a Florida vacation...
...Pacific harbor south of the Panama Canal) and the importance of the area it serves (up-&-coming Medellin, and the coffee lands of the Cauca valley), Buenaventura is also on the way to becoming the best-equipped port on South America's west coast. Last fortnight, a U.S. contractor (Raymond Concrete Pile Co.) finished two new storage warehouses and a 1,057-ft. wharf extension, which increased total berthing space to 3,432 lineal ft. Last week, the Colombian government signed a new, $4 million contract with the same company for 1,000 more feet of wharf, two more...
Pyrok was developed in Britain by Samuel Clipson, a big painting contractor. Its chief ingredient is vermiculite, a cheap mica-like mineral which, when heated, swells up to 16 times its volume like a pulled-out accordion. Vermiculite's resilience and cellular structure (mostly air) give Pyrok its lightness and strength. A special combination of lime and cement (Clipson's secret) makes the stuff stick tight...
...cost of labor plus cost of material, plus twenty-five percent overhead. Opening a fire door or breaking a window comes under official censure and entails a fine as well ad replacement. The skeptic who views twenty-five percent overhead with wincing eye might be reminded that no professional contractor operates even near this margin nor has he any urge...
...with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...