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...first concerned a 700-unit Winfield Park (N.J.) development built to house Kearny shipyard workers, which the Senate's Truman Committee has been investigating. Started in June 1941, the project will cost nearly $4,500,000 v. initial estimates of $3,200,000, is now only half rented because cellars flooded, roofs caved in, floors buckled, kitchen and plumbing equipment failed to turn up, doors "not operating" needed refitting, porches sagged, and -in some cases-furnaces were so installed that heating pipes blocked basement entrances...
...idealistic mutual-ownership project dreamed up by Federal Works Agency's Colonel Lawrence Westbrook (TIME, June 2, 1941), Winfield Park's history was so deplorable that Colonel Westbrook could count himself lucky that he is now on active duty, reportedly in Australia. Less lucky was red-faced Contractor Clifford F. MacEvoy, who squirmingly admitted last week that subsidiaries of his MacEvoy Construction Co. had furnished bonding service, excavating equipment, trucks, etc. to the project at third-party profits. He also admitted that his $40-a-week secretary was put on the project (i.e., U.S. Government) payroll...
...Chapultepec, 1847, where Winfield Scott took Mexico City and won New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and part of Colorado from Mexico. Casualties were relatively severe...
...Since capture at Wake the prisoners, including myself, have been very fairly treated and are all in good health and are looking forward to getting back to their homes" (Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, U.S.N...
Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...