Word: fitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Martin Patrick Durkin resigned last week as Secretary of Labor, an old union colleague remarked: "Like any old steam fitter, he knew when the pressure got too high." The pressure had been building up for a long time in several boilers-including Martin Durkin...
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). Making novels into movies-turning the rambling equations of a story into the compact formula of drama-is a task perhaps fitter for some electronic calculating monster than for any human talent. That may explain why Hollywood, whose talent is all too human, has never developed a sure touch in these translations. Columbia's success in bringing James Jones's bestselling novel to the screen may be due partly to the fact that it was hardly a novel at all; it was an obscene, extravagant blot of ink, pressed between covers into something...
...Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant was closed for the sixth day as both sides...
Shoot to Kill. Ex-Harvard President Conant could not have picked a livelier classroom for his introduction to cold-war diplomacy, nor a fitter place for his first recitation. Day & night, the German Communists were drawing tighter 'their noose around West Berlin and piling up fresh woes for doughty Mayor Ernst Reuter's West Berlin government. Last week they finished building concrete molehills across the streets leading from the East to the Western sectors. The people's police got orders to shoot to kill at border crossers, and diligently complied. Three cars carrying refugees from the East...
Family & Early Years: Born in Chicago, son of an Irish immigrant stationary fireman (boilers) and ardent trade unionist. He went through grade school and three years of night school, at 17 started work as an apprentice steam fitter, became a journeyman, then went off to World War I as a private in the 332nd Field Artillery...