Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning with enterprise when he left Holy Cross in 1918 and got his first job as a clerk in the Jones & Laughlin polishing mill. The work paid 22? an hour; he soon found another job where the hourly rate was 36?. When an opportunity arose to become a machinist's helper at the mill, he took it. Then in 1922 he returned to white-collar work as typist-switchboard operator at $80 a month for Wheeling Steel Products Co. Three nights a week, for three hours a night, he went to Duquesne University to study accounting...
...error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with a possibility of error. North American's new skin mill has worked out so well that the Air Force has ordered 48 more for U.S. aircraft plants, will install some automated giants that can mill wing panels up to 12 ft. wide and 45 ft. long...
Hundred Proof. A West Side Chicago machinist's son, Ed Lahey went to work at 14 as an office boy, later was a shipping clerk, hod carrier and railroad yard clerk before he landed his first newspaper job in 1927, on the now defunct Glen Ellyn, Ill. weekly Beacon. Two years later, after reporting stints with the East St. Louis Journal and the Associated Press, Lahey was hired by the Chicago Daily News, "the only paper I ever wanted to work...
...floor of the Chicago Amphitheater one night last week, a machinist pushed a button on a large lathe, then stood back, hands in pockets. In seconds, the automatic lathe fed itself a piece of roughly shaped metal, turned it into a stator (the stationary part of an electric motor), inspected it to make sure it was perfect, swept the waste metal into a receptacle, then started work to make another part. If the finished part had not been perfect, the lathe would have discarded it and made the proper corrections o make sure the next part was exactly to specifications...
...biggest worry for finance companies are the marginal buyers who are living beyond their incomes. In a Pennsylvania showroom last week, the wife of a $79-a-week machinist was fondly eying a $5,100 pink Lincoln Capri; in Denver, Oldsmobile Dealer Alan Hoskins told of an eager buyer who earned $400 monthly and wanted a '55 Olds. "We figured out his income after house payments, furniture payments, TV payments, and after the car payment," said Hoskins, "he'd be left with $20 a month to live. I just couldn't let him get in deeper...