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Since 1950 he has built them entirely of high-grade aluminum, working first with sketches, then wooden models, and finally delivering precise mechanical drawings to a machinist who produces the carefully milled pieces. He finishes them off himself with several coats of spray paint...
Warner & Swasey Co., the Cleveland machine-tool firm that has a reputation for conservatism, decided to help rebuild the city's riot-seared Hough section. This year, its executives persuaded Robert L. Coles, a Negro machinist and aviation-mechanics teacher, to ally his limping little C & B Machine Co. with Warner & Swasey in a joint venture. Together they created the Hough Manufacturing Co., whose ten Negro workers labor over turret lathes and milling machines. Warner & Swasey invested $250,000 to buy a three-story plant and provide operating capital. Coles got 200 shares...
...March 5, 1957, the body of 15-year-old Schoolgirl Victoria Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...
Originally from Chicago's West Side ghetto, where his father is a machinist, Ford decided that the black college student "adjusts, conforms, compromises, and goes through a song-and-dance to get a degree that only qualifies him for nonexistent opportunities. He acts like the fraternity boy who barely makes it through hell week?he gets obsessed with the values of the system that has worked against...
...million to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit, as copper users have been forced to turn to foreign suppliers, who now charge 700 a Ib. Despite union strike benefits, federal food stamps and county welfare payments, the strikers are hurting too. "Financially, I'm busted," said Machinist Wilbur E. Moses of Anaconda, Mont., last week. "But there ain't much we can do about...