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...interfaith committee out of my head. I got on the telephone, and in about five minutes each with the three most prominent Catholics I knew, the three most prominent Jews and the three most prominent Protestants, I had the committee." Members included ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Builder Louis Horowitz, Theater Owner Messmore Kendall...
Charles D. Wetmore'89, builder of Claverly, soon had rivals who tried to put it into the shade. A freshman History instructor completed plans to build a new hall--Randolph--across the street, thus shutting the sunlight from Claverly's lower floors. In vain, Wetmore tried to persuade city authorities to increase the 20-feet wide Linden Street...
...Light & Highball. In 1883, Empire Builder Edward H. Harriman, who believed that "the Illinois Central was the best railroad in the country," bought enough stock to get on its board. By 1906 he took complete control.* The Illinois Central more than fulfilled Harriman's estimate. By 1931 it had paid out a total of $310,300,000 in a golden flow of dividends uninterrupted since...
...company, founded only a year be fore by veteran Builder Frank McGraw -who had $17 million in contracts the day he opened his office - soon ran out of work in the depression. By 1932, says Strike, "the firm was whittled down to a half-dozen of us." But Frank McGraw had confidence in young Cliff Strike, let him run most of the construction jobs himself when business picked up again. Strike, in turn, gave his top supervisors a free hand and everything they asked for in the way of men and equipment. ("Even if you want a baby grand piano...
Long Haul. The pipeline, which brings Aramco's oil closer to Western European markets, saves a fleet of 65 tankers by eliminating the ten-day, 3,500-mile haul around the Arabian Peninsula (see map). For its builder, Burt E. Hull, 66, a bluff, weatherbeaten Texan, who has been building pipelines for 40 years, it was the biggest job since he built the wartime Big and Little Inch pipelines. As president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co., Hull now bosses the Arabian line for the four giant U.S. oil companies which financed it-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Standard...