Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk Railway Repair Shop ("Largest in Russia"). A 21-year-old girl, Nagimla Arykova, hitherto the editor of an unheard of provincial weekly in Kazakhstan, found herself installed as the Commissar of Public Welfare of the Kazak Soviet Socialist Republic...
...left behind him one of the most formidable State political machines in the U. S. Main significance of Senator Minton's sudden McNutt-for-President boom last week was to suggest not only that Commissioner McNutt was still running his machine but that the machine was in good repair. Last month Commissioner McNutt's "administrative assistant" and general factotum, 33-year-old Wayne Coy, flew from Manila to the U. S. A slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis...
...scrutable." Described as having "a vaccination scar on the left arm, a hand grenade scar on the back of the neck, a horse kick on the right shin, a mole on the left cheek," 42-year-old Author Davis has been a steamfitter's helper, chimney sweep, furnace repair man, electrician, detective, a knockabout journalist from Buffalo to Seattle. His hobbies include "spinning members of the W. C. T. U. and D. A. R. in revolving doors," giving fellow newshawks such Indian-style nicknames as Captain-in-Case-of-War Perkins. He is "a Protestant in politics...
...Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage caused by his son's incautious revelations to a market tipster. Good sequence: a riot in the automat when Ball Jr. tries to give Mary a free meal, turns on all faucets at once...
...founded as an elevator repair company in 1883, when elevators were still a rarity, by Alonzo Bertram See, an upstate New Yorker with exceptionally downright opinions even in his teens. He worked for Otis for a while, then set up his own shop in a basement on Manhattan's Centre Street. Thence he moved to Brooklyn and started manufacturing A. B. See elevators. By 1909 Mr. See had a $1,000,000 business, still largely consisting of carriage lifts (for storing carriages in stables) and genteel elevators for four-and six-story brownstone houses. About that time Alonzo...