Word: rubes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baird and Engler contrived to do all their war work without one penny of Government funds for new equipment. When they needed new machines they rigged up their own Rube Goldberg contraptions (Baird is proudest of a crane he made out of pulleys', sash cords and weights from Texas Washer windows). They bought their materials jointly, ran production lines from one plant into the other. Recently they were thrilled to hear that they were due for an Army-Navy E to reward their joint efforts (the first dual plant award in the U.S. and the first Ordnance award...
...course, the 'Poon's Rube Goldberg has yet to operate his steamobile, but he expects to drive it down here next weekend after completing the welding at his Dublin, N. H., home...
What emerged from this tussle with paper and pencil is a startling but not unhandsome combination of a fencer's mask and a Rube Goldberg ashtray...
...Rube went to New York, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. One day he filled out his space with Foolish Question No. 1, showing a man who had fallen from the Flatiron Building being asked by a bystander if he were hurt. (Answer: "No, I jump off this building every day to limber up for business...
Goldberg's ambition has always been to write, to become the "H. G. Wells of this country." But he was "tickled to death to break the continuity" when the New York Sun hired him in 1938 as its first political cartoonist in 18 years. Said Rube: "I never wanted to be the fellow who got the medal for being the Oldest Employe." Today his hobbies consist of "standing, sitting, breathing." Of his first exhibition he says simply: "Very dignified and well done...