Word: gillmor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and operating boss of the two Sperry gyro companies is lean, blue-eyed Annapolis-man Reginald Everett Gillmor, who was commissioned an ensign in 1909 just in time for assignment to U. S. S. Delaware, the Navy's first dreadnaught. Delaware was also the first battlewagon to be equipped with a Sperry gyroscopic compass and before he had walked many tours on the quarterdeck, Ensign Gillmor knew as much about it as the two electricians who had installed it: Thomas A. Morgan (now president of Sperry Corp.) and O. B. Whitaker (now Sperry Gyro's marine manager...
...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...