Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting at 9:15 o'clock the Ibisters' program lasted for 20 minutes until a loyal technician jerked out a vital tube a half an hour later and put the Network out of its misery...
When two other sons, Quentin, a clerk in the Air Ministry, and Frank, a technician for the British Broadcasting Corp., were arrested and interned, their father shook his head helplessly. When the first big flight of Nazi bombers roared over London one night last September, a bomb crashed on Dulwich Common, blasted the home in which white-haired Michael Joyce lived with his wife and two youngest children. Ailing, he moved into another small, red-painted brick house in nearby East Dulwich. There, last fortnight, Michael Joyce died...
...keeping pace with rising production quotas. Pig iron intended for spring steel turned unaccountably into stiff-rail steel. Of 80,000 files turned out at Voroshilovgrad one month, 33,000 were worthless because of faulty tempering. The whole Gorky Automobile Plant was stopped "for some time" while its chief technician tinkered with new production methods...
Midway of the between-halves recital an excited technician rushed up to Thomas C. Peebles, manager of the band, and protested violently that he was being forced to turn the program off the air any time a Harvard tune was played. The musicians rose to the occasion with a snappy rendition of non-ASCAP "Old Black...
...same time, Krupa had something else on the ball, an intangible rhythmic sense that makes all the difference in the world between a good drummer and a lousy one. It's all right to play flash now and then. I get a lot of kicks out of a good technician like Ray McKinley when he takes off for twenty minutes while Will Bradley and the boys just sit around and watch. But don't forget that when they start playing again, Ray is right in there driving the band along, giving them a solid rhythmic foundation that you just...