Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...