Word: craftsmen
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Toby McLean is a sports writer for a Manhattan daily. He is clever, well-liked, good-looking, but he has "the disease of tomorrow." So popular is he with his fellow-craftsmen that once when he is lying hors de combat in a Turkish bath in some alien city, his editor receives no less than four accounts of a single baseball game, all signed with Toby's name. When he is covering the Dempsey-Tunney fight in Philadelphia he meets Ann Vaughn, newspaperwoman; they fall in love and get married in short order...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...
...Mexico things are different. Painters there are workmen; they hire out by the day, work with masons (some of them have been masons), consider themselves only as craftsmen. They live natural lives as normal men, do not exude individuality, tea and conversation, are not "salon clowns...
...brightened by fear and a far flame's reflection; bull hippopotamuses lunging down to the water in the jungle morning, were photographed in North Africa by Producers Cooper and Schoedsack, who made Chang and Grass. Getting these scenes took a year and a half and was worth it. Hollywood craftsmen spliced around them a silly but exciting story about an Englishman whose best friends hand him white feathers when they find out he is scared of going to war against the blacks. When his sweetheart hands him the fourth white feather, he starts a series of heroic deeds which result...
...Henry J. Gielow came designs of the Armstrong Seadrome, a floating platform intended to be anchored far at sea, first between Manhattan and Bermuda, later perhaps in a chain across the Atlantic. In another scheme an airport was built on trestles over the Manhattan water front. Gorham's craftsmen exhibited a bronze door for the Detroit home of Edsel Ford and a silver tea set valued at $38,000 which was hidden each evening in a safety vault. Ten construction companies joined in presenting a series of scenic tableaux representing modern processes of building...