Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night in 1940 Jake Sparling of Bay City, Mich. sat down and wrote a letter to the President. Things hadn't been going too well for Jake. Always a good mechanic, with a natural-born feel for machines, he had made the mistake of branching out into contracting. His contract to build the Bay City waterworks proved disastrous-he lost his home, his machine shop, and all his possessions. Now he had only a small wooden shack near the railroad tracks where he was making pulleys. Even that business had gone sour. Jake modestly asked the President for some...
...letter found its way to the then Council of National Defense, and a reply came back over the signature of Bill Knudsen suggesting that Jake go to Michigan Pipe Co. in Bay City. Jake got a contract for making steel flanges for wooden pipes. On an old and almost outmoded lathe he started turning out the flanges-slowly, laboriously. Jake was happy; he had his self-respect...
Then his faithful fox terrier got sick, and Jake hired a handy man named Percy Fogelsonger to care for the dog. Oldtimers in Bay City remembered Percy as one of the lumberjacks who used to come into town in the '903 birling logs down the Saginaw Bay. For the last 40 years he had lived from hand to mouth. When Jake's dog recovered, Percy kept hanging around and finally Jake got another lathe and put him to work. Once more Jake was in the contracting business...
...with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president and general manager, was also a Cornell man, a onetime Marine passionately interested in Army fighting planes-a man who couldn't work with his coat on. W. T. ("Bill") Schwendler, chief engineer, turned out to be one of the crack aeronautical engineers of the period...
...start of the oddest Senate campaign in Illinois history. Democrat Kelly is a close friend of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the politically potent Chicago Tribune. But Republican Brooks-an isolationist until Pearl Harbor, and the man who got a conviction for the alleged murderer of Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle-is the Tribune's darling...