Word: lathees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Victory Program itself was at once the greatest mess of wishful thinking and the greatest production dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a...
Slow-spoken Homer Price was orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in...
A recorder blends well with a violin, or with other recorders. There are four kinds: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, the last surprisingly weak and whiskey-voiced for its three-foot length. Until five years ago, most recorders were made in Germany or England. The English revival had been started by...
Chistov, a factory worker, is mastering the art of sniping; Michurin, a lathe operator, has mastered the heavy machine gun and can riddle stationary or moving targets by day or night; Afinogenov, a bookkeeper, can toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every...
Paper Into Tools. The job of arming the U. S. fell into three stages: 1) paperwork, which was the letting of contracts, the headachy stage of deciding who was to do what and why and for how much; a period of telling people please-to-be-patient, of red tape...