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During the late 1920s a former iron molder, garage grease boy, machinist and farm hand named Robert Gilmour Le-Tourneau was making a modest living around Stockton, Calif., leveling farm lands and digging excavations with some machinery he had put together. One night he attended a meeting of the Young People's Mission in Stockton. Full of inspiration, he went home to his drafting board, in no time had turned out a design for a power control unit which would co-ordinate the functions of his digging machine...
...TICKET-Eugene O'Brien-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Late of the U.S. Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum...
...factories-he spent two years in the British Isles as secretary to a lecturer, returned at 21 convinced that his future lay not in a white collar but in overalls. At the Westinghouse Machine Co. plant in Pittsburgh he found what he wanted: two years apprenticeship as a machinist at 20? an hour. And in Detroit he found experience in half-a-dozen grimy shops...
...machinist by trade," Keller says today and many a Chrysler man has seen him prove it. So far as Walter Chrysler was concerned, he had proved he was much more than a good lathe-hand as far back as 1916 when President Chrysler of Buick (who had seen Keller's work in the General Motors shops) hired him as Buick's master mechanic...
...this realistic philosophy, to a pragmatic genius which stems from the machinist's bench and burgeons in a burning urge to put out a good product in quantity for low-priced sale, the U. S. motor industry owes its spectacular growth in the U. S. Most of its topflight executives, men like Ford, Chrysler, Knudsen and Keller, had nothing but their two hands and a kit of tools when they went to work...