Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost & Found. Off Pensacola, Fla., Chief Machinist Mate Dilbert D. Woolworth dropped his cigarette lighter into the Gulf, five minutes later got it back from a 15-lb. grouper hooked by his fishing companion...
...relative had. Big, beefy David Greenglass, an ex-Army sergeant, was Mrs. Rosenberg's brother. He had been indicted along with the others, and had pleaded guilty. As a machinist, he said, he was assigned by the Army to Los Alamos' Manhattan Project in 1944, where he worked in the machine shop turning out apparatus from sketches drawn up by the scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November...
Early in the week, arrayed under the flag of the United Labor Policy Committee, the bosses of C.I.O., A.F.L., the machinist and the railroad unions marched to the office of Mobilizer Charles Wilson. They were as full of beefs as a Chicago stockyard, and bellowing just as loudly...
...last week the President's chief counsel, Charles Murphy, tramped patiently from meetings with the United Labor Policy Committee (the bosses of C.I.O., A.F.L., the railway and machinist unions) to the offices of Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Stabilizer Eric Johnston, to the White House, to Blair House and back again. Labor still demanded representation on the Administration's top policymaking level. That it would undoubtedly get. But labor also still clung stubbornly to another point on which its three delegates had been outvoted on the stabilization board...
...most Americans, the phrase "built like a Mack truck" conveys a feeling of strength and solidity. Founded by three machinist-blacksmiths and wagonmakers in 1900, Mack Trucks, Inc. made the first gas-driven bus (for sightseeing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park), the first motor-driven hook & ladder. Mack soon became the leader in the heavy truck industry; year after year its earnings were good, its dividends fat. But in 1949 the oldest truckmaker in the U.S. no longer seemed to be built like a Mack. Sales were well down from 1947's peacetime peak of $124 million...