Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends here notified Wheeler's nearest relative in this country, his uncle, George Kurzman, a New York lawyer. His mother, Mrs. George Turner, lives abroad in Paris. His father was killed in an automobile accident in Germany eight years...
...long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories, twelve defeats and eight ties is almost equal to that of the late, great Knute Rockne...
...Sixty-eight-year-old Henry C. Turner, a Quaker from Maryland's tony Eastern Shore, came out of Swarthmore in 1893, when the U. S., ceasing to stretch out, was beginning to build up, turning to reinforced concrete to do it with. His company grew rapidly, helped by generous orders from Paper Magnate Robert Gair, Warehouse Magnate Irving Bush. Up to Sept. 15, 1939 it had done $434,333,000 worth of business, eight of its jobs exceeding $5,000,000 apiece, 126 running from $1-$5,000,000. Nineteen twenty-nine was its best year (gross...
...Stone and Edwin S. Webster. In that half-century they have over $1,000,000,000 of construction, $11,000,000,000 of appraisal work to their credit. In the last fortnight, Stone & Webster's engineering offshoot took in more orders than in 1939's first eight months, ran its backlog up to $31,000,000 and was dickering for another $15,000,000 worth of business. Its contracts billed in 1938 amounted to only...
...answered. "Gravel . . . taken about eight feet deep...