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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence says that she became mechanically-minded in self-defense. Her father was a natural-born inventor with a long string of posthole diggers, folding lawn chairs, etc. to his credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...
...Quonset Point in February 1948, his relations both with the local civilians and the civil service employees have been of the highest order. An example of his thoughtfulness and loyalty to his civil service employees occurred just before Christmas of 1948 when a disastrous fire swept the engine overhaul shop at Quonset. The captain went to considerable effort to insure that the hundreds of employees of this engine shop all be retained on the civil service payroll until a new shop could be constructed months in the future...
...good & bad news about U.S. public education, citing local groups for a good job wherever possible, and spotlighting problem areas. To make sure that the commission stays above all special interests, it will accept only members "not professionally identified with education, religion, or politics." As the commission set up shop this week, it had $250,000 in grants from the Carnegie Corporation and the General Education Board to help it along. To many professional educators, the commission's plans sounded good. Said Harvard's President Conant:" "Potentially the most important move for the advancement of public education taken...
Their gadding about follows the tradition that Joseph Linz, a St. Louis watchmaker, began when he set up shop in the railroad town of Denison, Tex. in 1877, not long after the last big Indian raid. He sent brother Albert Linz roaming the Southwest by buggy and train, sleeping in railroad stations with his head pillowed on his jewel box, while he and two other brothers-Simon and Ben-ran the store...
...Roof. Brother Albert outlived all the rest. He was present on the day in 1899 when the shop moved to the Linz Building-a seven-story Dallas "skyscraper" with a roof garden where visitors could relax and enjoy the view.* And he was on hand in 1940 when Linz Bros, moved to its present quarters, a severely modern building a few doors from the Neiman-Marcus department store. Until his death last February, at 85, "Mr. Albert" showed up every day to hand his customers Irish jokebooks, and horehound candy to ward off colds. Then brother Simon's heirs...