Word: machinistic
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Until he was 30, handsome, wavy-haired Dave McDonald hankered to write plays. A parochial school boy, he had gone to work at 15, first as a machinist's helper and later as a clerk in a steel plant office. Phil Murray, then a United Mine Workers' vice president, hired McDonald as private secretary. But all the while he was learning the union ropes, in the tough Appalachian coal districts, Dave studied theater on the side. By 1932, he had won a certificate of graduation from Carnegie Tech's drama school, written a couple...
...toughest job a highbrow machinist can tackle is to make a diffraction grating. The end result does not look like much: just a piece of glass coated with a film of aluminum in which thousands of microscopic lines are ruled. But when light hits such a grating, it separates into a brilliant spectrum that is far more useful for most scientific purposes than the spectrum formed by prisms. The closer the lines, the more the spectrum tells about the light that hits it, so scientists are always demanding finer & finer gratings from the machinists...
...After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water, and held her under until he was sure that she was dead...
...String. Like Henry Kaiser himself, Leo Harvey has the knack of getting what he wants from the Government and working a shoestring into a golden cord. His shoestring was the one-man Los Angeles machine shop which he started in 1913. Born in Latvia, Harvey had learned the machinist's trade in Germany before coming to the U.S. at 20. His shop prospered with World War I orders for parts for the Curtiss "Jenny," afterward, did a tidy business machining brass and aluminum parts. World War II's demand for aluminum plane parts spread his company over four...
Last week, 56-year-old Frank Edward Martin, who has spent 37 years with the Illinois Central (as everything from machinist apprentice to comptroller), was elected a vice president, as such will have the use of a private car. Later this month Martin will ride in the car to Newton to fulfill the rest of the prophecy. Said he: "I'd be an ungrateful cuss if I didn't." To make sure that Jessie Swem would be there, Martin sent out a query, found out that she is now Mrs. Claude Johnson, and living in Omaha, sent...