Word: lathees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years ago, Sperry executives started hiring experienced musicians who could also work on assembly lines. Thereafter job applicants were frequently asked first if they could play an oboe and second, if they could operate a lathe.
A white-haired repair man played sec ond flute and a lathe operator blew the trumpet. A few stuffy music critics regard ed the whole thing as a foolhardy venture.
In the big living room last week, grey-haired Pa John Harrington, 68, worked long hours at a grinder, grinned when the sparks flew, sometimes muttered: "I have more fun than a kid in this place." Buxom Ma Harrington, 58, wearing a house dress tucked into overalls, operated a lathe...
The first offer was some tooling that could be done only on a new $4,000 machine. The twins, who had never even seen $4,000, made their own machine-out of a junked lathe, an old washing-machine motor, an oil pump from a 1926 automobile and one of...
He lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts...