Word: draftsmen
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What made Sam Rayburn's new wrinkle newsworthy was that the diplomas were lettered by six Army draftsmen, working in the Pentagon building behind a door marked SECRET. Hastily Sam Rayburn announced that he was footing the bill ($339.61); indignantly he denied that he was mending political fences. He just thought it a good year, he said, to greet high-school students...
Topolski's art is in the tradition of the great draftsmen Daumier, Callot, Hogarth, his earlier work astoundingly like that of France's Benjamin-Constant. Says Topolski: "My particular love, my aim, and object in art" is Descriptive Draftsmanship-which he believes to be perishing...
...sole exception that they cannot hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They can hold their own in any activity where hearing is not absolutely essential-such as in radio communication. Among them are bakers and barbers, painters and carpenters, shoemakers, machinists, truck drivers, draftsmen, chemists, and even radio repairmen. Many of them are college educated. All they ask for is a chance...
...WHEN LAWRENCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING COLLEGE FOR MEN ONLY, NOTICED A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF MALE DRAFTSMEN LAST APRIL, A FREE COURSE WAS ANNOUNCED FOR 100 WOMEN WHO HAD AT LEAST A HIGH-SCHOOL EDUCATION. MORE THAN 600 APPLICANTS CROWDED THE HALLWAYS FORCING PRESIDENT E. GEORGE LAWRENCE TO SET UP AN ADDITIONAL CLASS TO ACCOMMODATE 200 WOMEN...
...only one blueprint machine in Moscow. Six months were taken up in compiling a Russian-English technical dictionary so that the U.S. engineers could make the Russians understand what they were talking about. Raw recruits from Russia's farms and city streets had to be converted into expert draftsmen and construction workers...