Word: machinistic
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...succeeds him?Samuel James Hungerford ("Sam" to a few friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive foreman for CPR at Cranbrook in southeastern British Columbia. Only two years later he was in muddy Calgary as master mechanic of the western division...
Lorenz Iversen, vice president and general manager of Mesta Machine Co., was made president. Machinist Iversen was born in Denmark, went to sea for two years as a machinist, then worked in the U. S. He saw technical training was essential, went to University of Bingen, Germany. In 1902 he returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant...
When the War began, Mr. Lawrance was already attacking the problem of reducing the weight of aircraft engines, then all water-cooled. He enlisted in the Navy as a machinist's mate, was soon commissioned ensign and assigned by the Navy Department to aeronautical research. There he evolved the radial air-cooled motor which was to be the basic pattern for today's Whirlwinds...
...business of professional evangelists has fallen off to such an extent that they now average only $3,000 a year. So, last week, reported the Rev. Charles Stelzle, onetime printing press machinist, long an investigator of sociological and religious problems, now a publicist. He had queried 100 leading evangelists on their business. Thirty had quit because they no longer could make a living in the profession...
...Recpolism." As an economic weapon the spinning wheel may be mere butting against a wall, but it is also the symbol of Statesman Gandhi's political program of "non-cooperation." The man is in fact a triple personality: Saint, Anti-Machinist, Statesman. He insists upon mixing up Religion, Economics and Politics into something before which the Anglo-Saxon stands puzzled and aghast, unwilling and unable to give it an English name. If Englishmen were Germans they would call what Mr. Gandhi is driving at "recpolism" (R?eligion, EC?onomics, Pol?itics...