Word: machinist
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Mildred McCollum, 40, a bouffant-haired mother of six who works as a secretary to augment her machinist husband's income...
PAUL F. COWIE President American Machinist Metalworking Manufacturing New York City...
...reason for the upsurge is that ever since World War II the average age of U.S. machine tools has been rising steadily (see chart). The latest census of the American Machinist magazine (taken only every five years) showed last week that 64% of the nation's machine tools are now ten or more years old v. only 38% in 1945. Though many of the older machines included in the count are not in use because enough newer ones are available to satisfy current demand, the census nevertheless is a dramatic warning that U.S. industry is in danger of getting...
...Evelyn Carter, the 29-year-old wife of a Ford machinist, 150 Dagenham wives staged a meeting at which they threatened to serve their husbands nothing but sandwiches for Sunday dinner if the strike went through. A public-opinion poll showed that 81% of Dagenham felt the same way. Union leaders got the message, decided to negotiate rather than strike...
...Chief Machinist's Mate Richard McKenna was the very model of a seagoing sailor; he had joined the Navy during the Depression, served 22 years on everything from a river gunboat in China to a destroyer off Korea. In 1953 McKenna suddenly deep-sixed the old salt image. Stumbling on Walden, he felt that his mind had been "in a deep freeze," decided to retire and become a writer. An old skipper charted his new course: go to the University of North Carolina, a good place for "a man with a purpose...