Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jailbird himself, Homer Price was superintendent of the Pen's machine shop. Thither last spring went a representative of Pump Engineering with the offer of a $30,000 subcontract. Homer Price agreed, took a leave of absence, borrowed $3,000, began converting his hillside home into a machine shop. Since precision machinery for aircraft parts was nowhere to be found, he made...
...redesigned a 50-year-old pipe-threading machine into a milling machine, a 40-year-old spindle drill press into a vertical milling machine. To start production he hired five Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling...
Slow-spoken Homer Price was orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen...
...Tribune's "Golden Era," before the Colonel got at the news columns, it produced its only Pulitzer Prizewinner, beloved Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. But Cartoonist McCutcheon, a sweet-tempered man who could not adapt his pen to McCormick manias, has been pushed aside by Cartoonist Carey Cassius Orr, who is not inhibited by McCormick...
...night a mysterious stranger appeared at a warehouse storing Pan Am gasoline. Sending the simple-minded watchman to phone the manager, the stranger set a World War I-type fountain pen incendiary bomb near some kerosene cans, then disappeared. The watchman discovered the fire before more than slight damage was done. The gasoline was needed for Lodestars that were shortly to leave for Africa...