Word: machiniste
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...made special contributions. The first skate that could be steered was invented by Yankee machinist James Leonard Plimpton in 1863. It consisted of two pairs of wheels which turned inward or outward as the skater shifted his weight. Modern skates still use this principle. Jackson Haines, father of figure skating on ice, mastered the pre-Plimpton rollers and toured Europe...
...Courses. In their lighter moments they build swank officers' messes in the deep jungles with handsome bars and flagged terraces (to the envy of the hard-living Army). In the South Pacific they laid out golf courses, constructed baseball diamonds, volleyball courts and movie amphitheaters. On Tulagi, Chief Machinist Mate Bernard M. Vinck hung out three coconuts for a pawnshop sign, began making "Tulagi Academy" rings, like the cherished Naval Academy rings-except that Vinck's were snail shell "cat's eyes" set in aluminum stripped from shot-down Jap planes...
...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
...over the U.S. Magazine publishers were beginning to ration subscriptions in a big way. Examples: Hearst magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, etc.) now accept no new subscriptions, will take only renewals. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., publishers of 26 trade journals (American Machinist, Aviation, Business Week, Electronics, etc.), will accept only enough new subscriptions to replace subscribers who fail to renew. Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal) still accepts one-year subscriptions by mail, but solicitors take them only for two years or more...
White-haired, Illinois-born Railroader Sprague came up the hard way: callboy telegrapher, machinist's apprentice, fireman, etc. After he had gone back to railroading, and had been promoted a few times, he picked up a new hobby: training race horses, particularly has-beens. Year after year his broken-down nags won purses for him (one big grey won 16 out of 20 races, after Sprague bought him for $175, pulled a tooth that had made him "outlaw" when the bit touched...