Word: machiniste
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...more homeless citizens. To explore their plight, Time Correspondent Jon D. Hull took up residence on the streets of Philadelphia. Some of the people he met, like a former construction worker named George, are still struggling to find a way up. Others, like a former machinist named Gary, seem hopelessly caught in the undertow. Many once led normal lives, with jobs and families and homes...
ROBERT CAMPEAU. In Ottawa it is said that Campeau owns the skyline. He made his first real estate investment in 1942 as a 19-year-old machinist. Campeau built a house, sold it for a 50% profit and started another. Within ten years he was building apartments and office towers, and now owns Canadian real estate worth $1 billion. Allied rejected his first offer of $58 a share last August, when the stock was trading at 48. But Campeau eventually won Allied's consent with an offer of $69 a share, helped by a $1.8 billion loan from First Boston...
...home for him to return to. The war was half- forgotten for the Americans in 1955, but for one of the former prisoners, Hans Richter, 60, that was the year he fled East Germany with 60 pfennigs in his pocket. He found a job near Wiesbaden as a machinist and three months later sent for his wife Elisabeth...
There was a lot of earnestness too. "If you want to understand this war, then you have got to know how the soldiers felt," explained Thomas Downes, a machinist from Cleveland who had signed on as a captain with the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment. "We cannot drink Cokes or Gatorade in the camp. It wouldn't be authentic. But if you can get whisky, that's all right. We are living historians. We have to do this to understand our forefathers...
...selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold and the Rosenbergs with atomic secrets...