Word: draftsman
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...studio of Draftsman Ralph E. Layman, police discovered a printing press, dies, a font of the eccentric, misshapen type used to print the code words on mutuel tickets. With this equipment, in an automobile parked near a race track, Layman could be his own totalisator machine, could punch out winning tickets after the race was over...
...last year of the 19th Century, William Sebold was born in a city near the Rhine. A region of narrow valleys and expanding industries, this section looks like the country around Pittsburgh. There William Sebold was apprenticed to a draftsman, grew up through a boyhood no more extraordinary than one spent in a hard-working manufacturing town in Western Pennsylvania before...
...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
...Sparkes. The book, which ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, is: 1) a lively account of the pioneering days of the U.S. automobile industry; 2) an intimate synoptic history of General Motors; 3) the success story of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who started as a $12.50-a-week draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., about three years later was running the company...
...circle around the subway entrance. But the impossibility of avoiding many cross-movements in traffic, coupled with pressure from adamant taxi men who wanted their parking space, caused the idea to fizzle. Any thought of an over-pass was stifled by the red condition of the treasury. However, one draftsman worked out a very practical solution which still can be realized...