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...twelve years in prison and forced to forfeit his property, the only property seizure of the war crime trials; his directors got sentences ranging from two to twelve years. The head of the Krupp empire went off to Landsberg prison, where he washed dishes, did laundry, worked in a blacksmith shop (one product: a crucifix for the prison chapel), and ordered his days to the sound of the bugle and whistle...
Rugged, tall (5 ft. 11 in.), plainspeaking, Magsaysay was indefatigably energetic and incorruptibly honest ("My parents taught me to be a good Christian. Do you know of any good Christian who is dishonest?"). He was a blacksmith's son, who came out of the Zambales mountains to work as a chauffeur and mechanic to pay for his mechanical engineering studies at the University of the Philippines. He fought the Japanese as a guerrilla, at war's end commanded an army of 10,000 men-but was especially proud of his U.S. Army rank as a captain...
...unusually complicated, but extremely fragile. Any kind of rough treatment, such as heat or acids, makes it fall into fragments that cannot kill any kind of germ. To use the customary chemical methods on penicillin, says Dr. Sheehan, "would be like attempting to repair a fine watch with a blacksmith's sledge and anvil." The critical problem was to find a way to bond a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom to form a chemical ring in the heart of the molecule. Avoiding many standard reagents as too violent, and keeping his solutions at room temperature or lower...
...Macmillan government. Tory leaders were quick to make light of the threatening sound. "They're just exercising their right to grumble," said one, as erstwhile Conservative voters hurled loaded questions at the Tory candidate in London's teeming, pie-shaped North Lewisham constituency. But the candidate, a blacksmith's son who has become a prosperous manufacturer (structural steel), was kefauvering his way ("I'm Norman Farmer; I'd like to answer any questions . . .") from door to door, day after...
...business of high-grade steels for high-speed tools had gone to pieces in World War II, when it concentrated on defense items, e.g., armor plate, failed to recover its peacetime customers. By 1948 Jessop was almost bankrupt. Then in came a new boss. Frank B. Rackley, 33, whose blacksmith father had encouraged him to read and believe Horatio Alger. While working as a $13-a-week office boy in Pittsburgh, Rackley studied metallurgy at night school, was named Western manager for U.S. Steel's stainless and alloy division when still...