Word: machiniste
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...remainder of Deal's story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled in the twisting...
...took from the Phœbus the four men it had rescued, steamed with them to Brooklyn Navy Yard. They were Lieut.-Commander Wiley, veteran of the Shenandoah, who looks remarkably like Herbert Hoover; Bos'n's Mate R. E. Deal, a survivor of the Shenandoah crash; Machinist's Mate M. E. Erwin and Radioman Robert E. Copeland. When the Tucker had them aboard its flag came down to half mast. Radioman Copeland had died of injuries or submersion...
James David Mooney, president of General Motors Export Co., was re- elected president of American Manufacturers Export Association. Onetime reporter, onetime assistant editor of American Machinist, Mr. Mooney entered General Motors as assistant to Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. He was put into its Remy division, jumped to president, then shifted to general manager of the export division. When he became head of the export division in 1922, GM was selling abroad about 20,000 cars a year. By 1929 he had shot this figure to nearly 300,000, was selling cars from 23 export centres to nearly every country...
Comrade Bulganin learned his machinist father's trade and was working in a factory when the Revolution broke. Promptly he threw down his tools, enlisted in the new "Red Army," fought through several campaigns against the "White Armies," rose to middling military rank, middling popularity. When Russia's civil war was over Comrade Bulganin's prestige carried him to directorship of Moscow's biggest electrical machinery factory. It did well. He received a Red order of merit, quietly became a power in the Moscow Soviet. He was elected its president-Mayor of Moscow-last year...
...Philadelphia, Wallace F. Mitchell, unemployed machinist, stole a bottle of milk from Grocer Bernard Beese. Grocer Beese shot & killed Machinist Mitchell. Widow Mitchell doubted that her husband had stolen the milk, said he had left the house to pick up cigaret stubs...