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...second floor will be devoted to offices, conference rooms and a section for high frequency and radio research work. The latter will be located near the Cruft Laboratory end. According to the contractor's specifications, the new building will have a volume of about 500,000 cubic feet and the walls of the library, lecture room, and corridors will be coated, with a special sound-absorbing, plaster, invented by Professor Sabine...
Even that plum tasted slightly tart to Aviation Corp. officials, whose mouths had been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...
...Murphy, also white. Seven months ago she bore a son. He had red hair. She named him Little Joe, after his father. Big Joe got very angry. He swore Little Joe was not his. Present was Mary Linder. Mary was black. Mary's husband, Willie, was a Negro contractor at 5222 South La Salle St. Widow Julian put white Little Joe into Mary's black hands, told her to take him away, care for him. The "Black Belt" closed about Little...
Help, too, may come from such Old Boys as: Paul Starrett, Manhattan contractor; John Villiers Farwell, Chicago financier, Yale trustee; Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime treasurer of the Chicago Daily News; Walter Byron Smith, director of Illinois Tool Works; President Henry Willis Phelps of American Can Co.; Frederick Tudor Haskell, director Continental Illinois Bank & Trust...
Before Warsaw's rabbinical court, to which orthodox Jews carry their disputes, one Aaron Taplitzky, modest building contractor, appeared last week with an unredeemed promissory note. The note was endorsed by one Schmuel Weinberg, and in Warsaw's Jewish circles the Weinbergs are wealthy, potent. Produced in court, Schmuel Weinberg turned out to be a baby six months old. But Contractor Taplitzky was unable to prove that Baby Weinberg had not signed the note. The Warsaw rabbis ruled that Baby Weinberg must pay Contractor Taplitzky-when Baby Weinberg comes...