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...train a machinist, an unskilled hand can be taught to run a lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they learn, 3) fewer teachers are needed...
...diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...week for New Jersey bosses, Atlantic County's Republican Boss Enoch ("Nucky") Lewis Johnson took it on the double chin. Long a shameless devourer of graft, showgirls & champagne, Boss Johnson stood before a Federal bar, smiled blandly when a jury foreman said: "Not Guilty." Second later, Nucky's tough face turned an unbecoming yellow at: "Guilty!" and "Guilty!" He had been convicted of cheating the Government out of taxes on $124,800 in '36 and '37. He had escaped conviction on a charge of doing the same thing in '35. Useful witnesses: operators...
Tall, skinny, young Earle M. Scott is a handy man with blueprints and tools. In 1932, a foreman in Lancaster (N.Y.) Malleables & Steel Corp., he set up shop in his basement, started a spare-time business manufacturing tail-wheel assemblies for light airplanes. Last year business...
...jury thought differently. In short order they found him guilty on 17 counts of mail fraud, spent the rest of the 25-hour recess in clearing his lawyers, Charles M. Travis and Garrett A. Brownback, of being accomplices. As Foreman Houston A. Hiers returned the verdict, Hopson's moans & groans broke out afresh. He faced at least five long years in federal prison, plus a $1,000 fine...