Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shower) knew exactly how it was done. By buying directly from manufacturers, Purchaser Mack had eliminated the wholesaler's commission. To the tradition-soaked leaders of an industry which believes in the sanctity of the wholesaler's discount and in the wholesaler's friend, the master plumber, as the only true outlet to the public, this was heresy. Adherents to The System, like Crane and American Radiator, call the renegades d-t-u's because they will sell directly...
...touch that was lacking in his personality. Although he was eclipsed for years by his more colorful half-brother Austen, just before Sir Austen's death he rose rapidly. When he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister in 1937, the London Star characterized him as "practical as a plumber, precise as a timetable...
Raymond Huff proceeded to make WPA history, putting up school buildings at less than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
...James Henderson Stewart, M. P.: let the Scots wear their kilts until actual fighting begins, then change to the battle dress (like ski suits) which all other British troops wear. Said Scot Stewart: "If a mon does a spot o' plumbin' he p'ts on a plumber's garb, but when it's over, he disnae hae to keep on bein' a plumber...