Word: defunction
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...being done less than perfectly, Dykstra likes to jump in and show how to do it. Shortly after joining Ford in 1947 (following stints as factory manager for Hudson and Oldsmobile), Dykstra became chief of the now defunct aircraft engine plant at Chicago. Exasperated by one division's repeated failures to machine propeller shafts to the close tolerances required by the Government contract, he hauled the department chief back to the shop after work, told him to watch, and began to machine a shaft himself. At 5 a.m., with the weary department chief still watching, Dykstra completed the shaft...
...these stories are the work of Education Editor Robert Shnayerson, 34, who himself attended twelve schools as a child, ranging from extremely progressive to proper prep. He particularly recalls the four years he spent at now-defunct Manumit School at Pawling, N.Y., "a strange school on a farm. We drove trucks at nine years and plowed with tractors, slaughtered pigs and took care of the cows. But I didn't learn anything about anything." He joined the Navy at 17, for three wartime years in the North Atlantic...
...Free Press's larceny was perfectly legal. A month ago, enviously watching the News pick up the lion's share of the defunct Times's circulation, Free Press Managing Editor Frank Angelo was suddenly reminded of the fact that, besides writing his column, Dr. Molner is health commissioner of Detroit and surrounding Wayne County. Angelo sent a reporter around to the doctor with a list of 20 questions (sample: "Does donating blood do a fat person any good?") and asked that the doctor answer them in his official capacity. Unhappily concluding that "as a public servant...
...murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
...resemblance to a pianoforte rendering by the bank manager of the clarinet music enclosed with your lordship's dispatch. The only further testimony I can obtain of the correctness of this music is that it reminds a resident of longstanding of a tune once played by a long-defunct band of the now disbanded Muscat infantry, and known at the time to noncommissioned members of His Majesty's forces as (I quote the vernacular) Gawd Strike the Sultan Blind. "I am informed by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs that there are now no occasions on which...