Word: builder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably the world's most hazardous peacetime occupation is that of test pilot for a company making military aircraft. Lately when famed Builder John K. ("Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...
...bewitch a stranger's life story from him in ten minutes, Publisher Riddell capitalized on the universal craving for information about crises in other people's lives. Few British dailies have Sunday editions, and in 1900 few dailies anywhere had learned the trick of scandalmongering as a circulation-builder. Published on Sunday only, News Of The World under Riddell management became a bulky budget of news from the British police courts. Maintaining only a small editorial staff of his own. Publisher Riddell drew the mass of his material from reporters on daily papers who were encouraged to furbish up their...
...design of Federal buildings. He boasts that he never accepted so much as a cigar (and he is passionately addicted to them) from a contractor or competing architect. "Recently," he rumbled, "I had to send back a gallon can of New Orleans molasses that was a gift from a builder. Good molasses...
Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
Succeeding old Bill Lutz, who died last spring at over seventy years of age, as the premier boat builder here, the 43 year old Dane takes great pride in his craftsmanship. Just now he is recovering with a veneer of Spanish cedal the hull of an eight which was wrecked this fall in a head-on collision with another shell. Two weeks of work will make it serviceable...