Word: machinist
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...Solomons in the first phases of the campaign. All four were sunk. What it felt like to be on-and later off-one of them, the Gregory, what it feels like to be sunk in any sea battle, was vividly described in the U.S. last week by Machinist's Mate George Thomas Rhodes of the U.S. Coast Guard, who had a nightmarish adventure on top of the sinking...
There was a small but powerful union already: the Foreman's Association of America, 14,000 strong, headed by florid, black-haired Robert Howard Keys, a 30-year-old ex-machinist, ex-assistant foreman at Ford's River Rouge. By last week Keys had a contract with Ford, was negotiating with Packard, had petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a contract to become the foreman's exclusive bargaining agency in General Motors' Detroit Diesel Engine Division...
...Waukegan, Ill. flew a Navy plane, fought together, and died together in a crash at San Juan, Puerto Rico. Last week in Santurce they were buried side-by-side in a service that exemplified America: a Protestant chaplain read the service for Lieut. Vogel, a Catholic priest for Machinist's Mate Sipowsky, a Jewish rabbi for Issie Goldberg of aviation ordnance...
...Right rudder 20°," ordered the captain for relay to the helmsman. Over a speaking tube came the Iowa-sharp voice of John ("Shanghai") Frajman, Machinist's Mate 2nd Class: "Engines making one-oh-two revolutions...
...chief pharmacist's mate-had once witnessed an appendectomy. "It was operate or certain death," wrote Lieut. Franz Hoskins to his family in Tacoma (Wash.) last week, "for the patient's temperature was 106°." So, with the help of the ship's commander and two machinist's mates, Lieut. Hoskins administered the anesthetic and the pharmacist's mate bravely cut open the patient, located and removed his appendix, stitched him up again. "It took us two and a half hours," wrote Hoskins, "and the patient is now convalescing in great shape...