Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some 47,000 heavenly bodies, is the sole discoverer of two previous comets, co-discoverer of three others. In 1933 Nova Ophiuchi, a variable star which had not flared up since 1898, flared up again. Peltier was the first to see the outburst. Harvard passed on word of it to observatories...
...Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan's work than his life. As it happened, both were equally full of tragedy, triumph and despair. Son of an Irish dancing master, Louis Sullivan, at 16, was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At 17 he was a draftsman in the office of one of the hundreds of fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago fire. At 18 he had passed, after six weeks' cramming, the rigorous entrance examinations of L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
...took a job as draftsman for Boeing in 1917, nearly got fired when he worked out in his head an answer to a problem which agreed with no one else's. When his answer proved right he rose rapidly to assistant chief engineer, chief engineer, secretary, vice president and general manager. Year ago he succeeded Founder William Edward Boeing as president. Married, he has no children, flies his own plane to hideaway lakes for fishing...
Three months ago General Electric Co. invited every architect, engineer, draftsman and designer in the U. S. to submit plans for two types of houses in a $21,000 prize contest. Result: The greatest single collection of architects' drawings (2,100) assembled since Depression logjammed the housing industry. Last week the drawings, suspended from wires like baby's diapers on a laundry line, were put on display for a jury in General Electric's Manhattan building...
...Maurice Levin was selling newspapers with his brothers. From their mother they had inherited a run-down little grocery store with $500 in debts. Creditors offered to waive their claims, but the boys insisted on paying, and within four years they did. Meanwhile a step-brother named Kaplan, onetime draftsman for Western Electric Co., had gone down to Santo Domingo where he started a company to export raw molasses to the U. S. to make industrial alcohol. He lost his first barge in a storm, but by 1919 he was handling nearly 100,000,000 gal. of molasses. That year...