Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Desmond Hall left Mademoiselle in 1937, Betsy Blackwell became editor-in-chief. Her managing editor is 28-year-old Johanna Ellen Hoffman,* whose qualifications, besides a knowledge of English, French and German, a little Turkish, and a little Arabian, include experience on McGraw-Hill's American Machinist...
During the late 1920s a former iron molder, garage grease boy, machinist and farm hand named Robert Gilmour Le-Tourneau was making a modest living around Stockton, Calif., leveling farm lands and digging excavations with some machinery he had put together. One night he attended a meeting of the Young People's Mission in Stockton. Full of inspiration, he went home to his drafting board, in no time had turned out a design for a power control unit which would co-ordinate the functions of his digging machine...
...TICKET-Eugene O'Brien-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Late of the U.S. Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum...