Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yielded twice as much gasoline, was granted his wish to retire, was succeeded by Edward G. Seubert, a onetime newsboy. Soon, no doubt, the success magazines will be asking Mr. Seubert for the story of his rise. It is an epitome of the great U. S. biography, a machinist's helper at 15, a bookkeeper whose accounts balanced, a chief clerk who plugged, a vice president -one of the faithful rewarded when he reached a healthy...
...inventor of the plane-parachute was Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Harry A. Doucett, of San Diego Navy air base. The contrivance weighed 45 Ibs. and measured 50 ft. across. Plane, pilot and equipment weighed just short of a ton. Naval observers were most enthusiastic after the test and Pilot Oelze was for another drop at once, to a level landing, with a slightly larger parachute...
Last week after the cornerstone ceremony (it was William Fox's cornerstone), said Inventor LeRoy, now 71 and a machinist of limited means: "I've been watching his smoke ever since...
...Carrying seven men, including three who had left the control-cabin, it began to spin. Those of the seven who were not desperately engaged in keeping their seats astride a girder, valved gas as freely, as quickly as they could. The lost mountain spinned ? earthward. Nearing ground, Chief Machinist Halliburton fired shot into the gas envelope. Through the twilight, a farmer was signalled, caught a guide-rope, wrapped it about a tree. The nose had arrived safely, only one man being injured...
...Follette Wheeler Club will hold its second meeting in the Faculty Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. The club has secured Mr. Fechtner, of the Machinist's Union of Massachusetts to speak. Mr. Fechtner, who has been very active in the strike in the Waltham clock works, will explain the laboring man's point of view towards the present election...