Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Superior Court Mary Doornbos, 36, demanded full custody of her son David, 5, on the ground that he was not her husband's child but the product of artificial insemination, to which her husband, Machinist George Doornbos, 48, had consented. Further, she asked the court to approve artificial insemination...
Several days later, at noontime, Hewitt as usual went off by himself to the canteen for lunch. His workmates, members of the A.E.U., gathered for a quick meeting. The public outcry was beginning to tell on them. Machinist Stan Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said...
...police headquarters the stranger told his story: He was a 28-year-old Hungarian named Imre Komoroczky, for six years a machinist at the Communists' prized Matyas Rakosi Engineering Works near Budapest. Though even his parents were ardent Communists, Imre took a dim view of the New Order. Once before, in 1950, he had tried to escape to the West in a packing crate, but the crate had broken open during transshipment in Prague. Imre was seized and returned to Hungary to spend 14 months in prison...
...stranded motorist, an unemployed machinist named Everett Silas Miller, did not answer until he had jerked open the door of her car and jumped in beside...
Striker Edwin A. Gramm, a machinist working on F-86Fs, who, though not a union member, stayed out for three weeks before going back, summed up the strikers' troubles. "Things got too tough for me," said he. "My car insurance came due. That's $120. The taxes on my house came due. That's $140. I've got a boy in junior high, and he was yelling for gym clothes." When Gramm went back, North American gave him its offered pay boost of 8? an hour, plus living-cost bonus of 2? (the union had asked...