Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor announced, amid shouts of "Vive De Gaulle," the formation of a Committee of Public Safety whose membership "was prepared long ago in Algiers...
...accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been a one-man trapeze act." Snapped Baltimore paving contractor and Perennial Candidate George Mahoney: "Far be it from me to accuse other candidates, but it would be nice if they supplied something more current than wedding and graduation photographs." Thus did the candidates near the end of a free-for-all Free State primary...
...were put out, Farwell and Moody were raising funds for another hall. The Y. was up in 1869, down (through the Great Fire) in '71. up once again in '74. A few years later tin bathtubs were installed, and proved so popular that they caused impatient queues. Contractor John Scully punched pipes through the partitions separating the bath cubicles, gave Chicago its first showers (with one trouble: bathers had to skip from scalding-hot to ice-cold jets). After Billy Sunday abandoned his post as centerfielder for the White Stockings (later the Chicago Cubs), became...
...Pavilion from the start. The World's Fair U.S. Commissioner-General Howard S. Cullman credits Stone's early planning, even before a final budget figure was available, with giving the U.S. the fast start that "was the difference between make or break." Belgium's top contractor, Emile Blaton. made the project his particular baby. As a result, the U.S. Pavilion, one of the last to get started in Brussels, is among the first to be completed. Even more remarkable is the fact that Architect Stone stayed within 1% of the State Department's original...
Able, urbane Don Yates has so far kept contractors, military services and unions happy, for the one unifying force at Cape Canaveral is a widespread epidemic of missile fever. In nearby Cocoa Beach, and in towns up and down the coast, missilemen and their families have infected the whole populace with the fever. In motels, bars and restaurants, the prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses...