Word: machinist
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...many days after a young machinist's mate on the transport George F. Elliott wrote these lines, his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Glorch of Chicago, did receive the letter. It had been forwarded by one of Henry's shipmates, who added this note: "You have lost a fine son. I have lost a fine buddy...
Potential irritants are almost everywhere-e.g., the oils with which sheets of aviation aluminum are coated, the chloronaphthalenes which waterproof electrical equipment, the oils which cool and lubricate the cutting edges of machine tools. Cutting oils are probably most bothersome. A Federal survey of 2,000 machinists in 1922 found that 27% of these workers suffered from oil acne. Vegetable and animal oils have often replaced the petroleum oils, but machinist's dermatitis is still common...
...Louisiana, where followers of the late "Kingfish" are tinkering with the remnants of the Long machine and looking for a future machinist, Huey Long's son, Russell, announced that he was going to join the Army or Navy, practice a little law after the war, and then get into politics...
...privately owned passenger amphibians. The shop was set up in an old tree-shaded garage in Baldwin, L.I., with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president and general manager, was also a Cornell man, a onetime Marine passionately interested in Army fighting planes-a man who couldn't work with his coat...
...this attempt I managed to get the step and start the run. The plane bounced high into the air without speed, and on each bounce Aviation Machinist's Mate...