Word: draftsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, drab Chicago flat where he was born and brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner...
...decided to be an architect. After a year at Kansas City Junior College, where he got in trouble for firebrand editorials in the school paper, he worked for two years as a plumber and draftsman in Chicago, saved enough money to study architecture at the University of Illinois...
...Japanese connoisseur who saw the Army's exhibit last week would be quick to point out that Jacoulet is more of a craftsman than a draftsman. Compared with Utamaro and Hokusai, the old masters of print-making's great period (1600-1867), Jacoulet's designs have a long way to go. But he is reviving interest in a vanishing art, and for that, all Japanese patrons of prints could be grateful...
Ralph W. Gallagher, 64, who started out in the oil industry as a pumping-station oiler at 16, retired as board chairman of Standard Oil Co. (N.J.). Into his place went Vice President & Director Frank W. Abrams, 56, who went to work for Standard as a draftsman 33 years ago, made his name as boss of marketing and refining for Standard in the U.S. But a large part of the backbreaking operating job will still be done by Standard's red-faced, drawling President Gene Holman and the rest of Jersey's board of directors...
...marriage of a middle-aged man to a young woman? Unlike most Lewis novels, Cass Timberlane posed no social problem. Blurbed ostentatiously as "a novel of husbands and wives," it chronicled the courtship and marriage of sedate, flute-playing Judge Timberlane, of the Minnesota district court, and Virginia Marshland, draftsman and designer for the Fliegend Fancy Box and Pasteboard Toy Manufacturing Company...