Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...upon leaving school could go to an employer and say he was specifically fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: 'I went through high school' or 'I went through college.' That doesn't mean anything. But if they said they are a machinist, a chemist or a cabinetmaker, that does mean something. . . . I would not be surprised if I spent one hundred million dollars in the project [building schools throughout the country...