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...totaled $287 million, its profits a record $5,761,000, an impressive figure in an industry where competitive bids often shave profits paper-thin. Besides heavy basic construction, M-K is now expanding into factories and laboratories. In 1950, M-K bought 98% of Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., one of the top U.S. constructors of industrial buildings, for $2,650,000, has put it to work on Pittsburgh's $2,800,000 Mellon Square underground garage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: The Earth Mover | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...Ferguson was will known for a theory of Greek history called "Ferguson's Law," originally presented in his graduate thesis at Cornell University in 1898. This theory, proved correct by later discoveries, provided a revised chronology for some 300 years of Greek history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retired Professor William Ferguson Dies at Age of 78 | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, Emeritus, and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, died yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retired Professor William Ferguson Dies at Age of 78 | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

After a careful inspection of the Michigan political scene, politicos saw no one who could beat Soapy Williams. In the senatorial primary, Blair Moody seems a good bet to beat McNamara. But even Michigan Democrats doubt that Moody will be able to unseat Republican Senator Homer Ferguson in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: McNamara's Whistle | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Unfinished Debate. But even with FPC's new decision, the gas debate is not over. A fortnight ago Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson and Detroit's Republican Congressman Charles G. Oakman, whose constituents will be hit by the price increase, introduced bills to outlaw the new field-rate system and keep the old base rate. To help them, Senate Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee Chairman John W. Bricker, whose Ohio constituents are also affected, demanded an FPC opinion on the Ferguson bill. FPC replied that it would give no view on legislation dealing with an issue before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Boost for Gas | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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