Word: machinist
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...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...
Talebearers. The arrest of Family Man Slack was quickly followed by that of another husband & father, a 28-year-old machinist from New York's East Side named David Greenglass. Plump, wavy-haired Machinist Greenglass made no bones about the fact that he had been considering either running away or committing suicide ever since he had read the chill news of Gold's arrest. The FBI discussed his case even more tersely than that of Slack-he had joined the Young Communist League in 1938, had been sent to the Los Alamos atomic project as a machinist while...
...Otto Adolph Seyferth, 58, became the 23rd president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A former stone carver and $4-a-week machinist's helper, Seyferth was once president of Michigan's A.F.L. Trades and Labor Council, is now president and owner of the $3,000,000 West Michigan Steel Foundry Co. As a hobby he runs a farm, gives away what he grows, because "if I were to sell [my farm products], I would be making a business of farming. I am in business enough already...
...their ten-year-old son Enrico, she had answered a call at De Sica's office for a small boy. Maggiorani was in the snapshot too, and the movie people liked his looks for the role of Antonio. He balked. He had worked for 16 years as a machinist in the Breda steel works, and the job was good enough to support his wife and three children. "A steady job," he protested, "is better than all the quick riches in the world...
...pink-hued Federated Press. But last week a rival agency, with financial backing from several big A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions, was well under way in Washington. The new, non-political Labor Press Association had already signed up 193 clients, including such important papers as the C.I.O. News, the Machinist and the I.L.G.W.U.'s Justice...