Word: machinist
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Harry Tull Young, machinist's mate, second class, Reader...
...gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...
...carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...
...acquaintance, a machinist in a Moscow factory in his late 305, has three children living in one room with one small window, and earns 600 rubles monthly-the price of one poor-quality man's woolen suit. He is forced to work overtime regularly in order to maintain his wage. In May, he said: 'All the same, it would be little good for us if the Germans defeated the Soviet Union. We must fight all together if attacked.' To generalize, the countryside is potentially unreliable, but the city population will fight well...
...these blocks maintain the accuracy of micrometers and other gauges down to a ten-thousandth of an inch, thus make possible the interchangeability of parts, essence of mass production. Today, with production booming, the "Jo" blocks, always scarce, are spread as thin as management itself. Last week a lone machinist in a privy-sized Cleveland shop was easing the scarcity and making a lot of money...