Word: apprenticeships
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...wrote them: verse (Departmental Ditties) or prose (Plain Tales from the Hills). Other Indian papers began to buy his stuff; soon there were half a dozen paperbacked books signed Kipling on Indian railway bookstalls. By now Kipling had some money saved up. He turned his back on India and apprenticeship, returned to England to dip his fiery pen into the Thames. Almost immediately the Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman...
Eight years ago the building trades had 1,600,000 skilled mechanics. Almost no one has entered the trades since, apprenticeship training having come close to a complete halt. Death, disability and departure for other occupations has meanwhile taken a 5% toll annually. Carpenters have turned farmers, plumbers have taken jobs with air-conditioning concerns, painters, plasterers and masons have gone to WPA. The favorite field for onetime builders is gasoline filling stations...
Last week in Houston, Winthrop Rockefeller, now 24, said he had finished his Humble apprenticeship of nearly three years, was ready for new work, probably in California. Said he: "I got a certain satisfaction out of physical labor, but my aspirations are slightly higher. It does not look like efficiency to have a man of my height [6 ft. 3½ in.] wielding a short-handled shovel." At home and abroad, young Mr. Rockefeller's business last week displayed these proofs of prosperity: ¶ U. S. oil production set a new all-time high with an average daily flow...
...complexity, professional baseball has one which says that a major-league team may not hire an amateur player until he has first played for a minor-league team. Only exceptions to the rule are college players, who are occasionally able enough to join major-league teams without serving an apprenticeship, but major-league club-owners long since perfected a method of evading their own law in the case of non-college players. When a major-league scout spots an able sandlot prospect, he notifies a friendly minor-league team, which hires the player with the understanding that the major-league...
...history up to that time (Northern Pacific), to fail with the greatest crash then on record. A blue-eyed, energetic Episcopalian whose only frivolity was playing his flute, Jay Cooke was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1821, grew up in a hot Abolitionist country, served his apprenticeship in St. Louis, got into Philadelphia banking at the age of 18. Since his marriage in 1844 was happy, his prudent investments in railroads and Western lands profitable, his early career was so unexciting that it appears in his biography as little more than a record of the jobs he held...