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...called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared: "It all belongs to Mr. Anderson and Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam who? Why Uncle Sam Wilson. He owns all about...
...illuminated by a far more prosaic fancy than City Streets (see above). There are shots of racketeers playing water on cement, blowing up buildings, ruining milk-cans with bullets. The frustrated hero is Spencer Tracy. By blackmailing builders he rises to become the silent partner of a rich building contractor. He tries to cut a figure in society to win the love of his partner's sister. In the end he is shot down by the lowly racketeers whom he has learned to scorn. In spite of an able cast that includes Marguerite Churchill and Sally Eilers, the whole thing...
...last week directors of Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. passed the dividend on common snares, said they have cut salaries. The new ship will be 73,000-tons, to cost $30,000,000, is being built on the Clyde. It is now known merely as "No. 534," the contractor's name...
...usual, membership in the trading account was sold to individuals who would let the pool's managers handle all its affairs but who would share in its profits or losses. One member of the pool was William Frank Kenny, rich Brooklyn contractor, faithful friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime 20%-owner of the New York "Giants" baseball team (National Exhibition Co.). Since Contractor Kenny had been a Chrysler director (1925-28), since Jules Semon Bache and Edward F. Hutton were on the Chrysler board, it seemed that this big pool had a sure future. But last week the Bache...
...this dam is just a dam but it's a damn big dam. Otherwise it's no different than others we've thrown up in a dozen places. It involves a lot of money?more money than any one contractor has a right to have. ... I don't know when I'll get out of here. I think I am improving but don't worry, I'll be on this...