Word: machinists
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...upon leaving school could go to an employer and say he was specifically fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: 'I went through high school' or 'I went through college.' That doesn't mean anything. But if they said they are a machinist, a chemist or a cabinetmaker, that does mean something. . . . I would not be surprised if I spent one hundred million dollars in the project [building schools throughout the country...
President Woodruff's experience with White Motor Co., goes back to 1913 when at the age of 24 he became a salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
...tell him not to forget who you are. . . . The new nationalities are according to jobs. Some of these days nobody will ever say a man is a Swiss or a Slav or anything like that; they will say he is a plumber or a baker or a machinist, and what he does for a living will be his nationality and his destiny...
...year ago in March, a stalwart Emden machinist, Hans Junk, went to President von Hindenburg and asked permission to adopt the glorious name of Junk-Emden for himself and to bestow it upon his progeny. Recently came Chief Machinist Friedrich Garbe, asking that he might become Friedrich Garbe-Emden. President von Hindenburg ruminated long, but last week the enabling decree was signed. Not only machinists Garbe-Emden and Junk-Emden, but any other survivors of the crew of the gallant cruiser who so desire may now legally hyphen-Emdenize their names "as a title of honor...
With his automatic revolver, Lopes fired. The quarry sped on. Then, on Ingraham's order, Machinist Samuel Jones opened machine-gun-fire from the picket boat's bow. Some 200 bullets whined through the dark. These random shots did not stop the runaway but they: 1) startled Mrs. Robert V. Latham, sitting up in bed aboard her husband's houseboat, one shot missing her by six inches; 2) "fanned" George D. Broughman, night watchman along the river; 3) penetrated the "parlors" of Undertaker John Gautier; 4) lodged in two houses on Miami's Flagler...