Word: helper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidetracked once again, became a freelance radio writer and actor in Chicago, helped create the memorable It's Your Life series of documentaries. Last March, he got the idea for Mr. Wizard, sold it to NBC and hired twelve-year-old Bruce Lindgren as his helper and sometimes skeptical stooge...
Died. William C. Johnson, 49, who joined Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. in 1924 as a machinist's helper, became executive vice president last February; of a heart attack; in Milwaukee...
...awaited improvement was under way at Ste. Cunegonde's. Workmen with acetylene torches were installing a new elevator. The old folks, who daily shuffled up four flights of stairs to their fifth-floor quarters, were overjoyed. Only Fortunat Taillefer, 70, who once had been a welder's helper, fretted about the acetylene torches blazing away so close to the tinderlike stairwell and the old wooden floors...
...Dulles' speech had been read in advance by Acheson, though the Secretary knew the speeches were to be made. Such clearances aren't necessary, a State Department man explained, unless you intend to say something new, in which case the speech should be submitted to an Acheson helper named Jeffrey Kitchen. Rusk had thought he was only restating the obvious, and was as surprised as anyone else when the British Foreign Office began expressing alarm, and the State Department issued a hasty handout saying that China policy is unchanged...
Helmsman's Helper. General Electric Co. showed off the "electric helmsman," a device that makes it possible to steer a ship from a number of stations other than the bridge. The "helmsman," already being installed on several Navy ships, is a portable control box which can be plugged into outlets leading from many parts of the ship to the steering mechanism in the stern. The helmsman's "wheel" is simply a knob on the control box. Sample uses: to replace the main steering station if the bridge is knocked out, or if the helmsman wants to steer from...