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...jobs they never got. The standard "fee" was $500 for a contract in 30 days. One man had been promised good jobs in Wisconsin, Illinois or Indiana. When he failed to get them, he said he stormed into the Curtis office, received back $400 of his "fee." Another builder paid in his $500, he said, and later invested $15 in a set of Federal statutes from which he learned that only by the strictest competitive bidding could he hope to get a U. S. contract legally. Other men paid for the profitable roofing and plumbing subcontracts on the new Chicago...
...apart last week two plans were revealed for major new developments in Manhattan's financial district. First and most spectacular of the announcements was that Louis Adler, onetime dressmaker, now independent real estate operator and builder, had succeeded in assembling an entire square block in the Wall Street district. Although 23 minutes after the last plot had been bought Mr. Adler could have sold at a profit, he is going ahead with plans for a 105-story office building...
...Bennett S.A is the designer and R. W. Straus '31 is the builder of the scenery for the play in accordance with the Club's policy of being a strictly student organization, these members have provided three sets, a luxurious living room, a press office and a realistic court room. Leslie Cheek '31 is the creator of the posters that are now appearing around the Square...
Shamrock V. In Camper & Nicholson's yard at Gosport, England, the Countess of Shaftesbury christened the Shamrock V for Sir Thomas Lipton. It is a heavy boat, 77 ft. long, "made," said Builder George Nicholson, "to last a quarter of a century, maybe more." Its hull is of mahogany on a steel frame. The deck of the Shamrock IV was only half an inch thick and made of plywood, but you could load bricks on the two-inch planks of the Shamrock V. It will be much less speedy than the graceful boats which raced for the America...
...Builder Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody...