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Skilled industrial engineers in the United Kingdom have a social status that requires them to go in by the "Tradesmen's Entrance." They are accustomed to be guided and overruled by English gentlemen and by civil servants. Last week, however, the "Ford of Britain." philanthropic Lord Nuffield, whose little Morris cars are omnipresent doodlebugs of the British road, marched out of the Air Ministry and stirred up the most public sort of scandal by announcing that the engineering plans of its gentlemen happen to be all wrong. Lord Nuffield made no secret of the fact that he had just...
...Small tradesmen especially swear by Hitler for the reason that, although he has not yet abolished chain stores in Germany as he promised to do he has blocked existing chains from expanding the number of their branches and provided that if a branch is discontinued it cannot be re-opened or relocated...
...schools which confer the degree of Doctor of Optometry, seven require three years of study; three (Ohio State, University of Southern California, Columbia) demand four years. Opticians are simply craftsmen who make lenses and mountings, or tradesmen who sell them, or both. For them no formal training is required, but they are unlikely to prosper if they lack skill and experience...
...plan succeeds we will have Social Credit before we know it!" cried an Aberhart spokesman, while the Premier himself warned: "Acceptance of our prosperity certificates by tradesmen will be purely voluntary but they will have no alternative except to take them or lose their trade...
...cooked a century ago; 3) the office of White House Bookkeeper Henry F. Nesbitt who records all parcels received at the White House, keeps an eye on the silver vault: 4) the room where Mrs. Nesbitt, the housekeeper, stores the State table linen in special cupboards, where she interviews tradesmen; 5) the office of Captain Ross T. Mclntire, White House physician, who is really not a servant; 6) the storeroom with shelves full of canned and bottled goods and one corner given over to pheasants, ducks, grouse, woodcock, quail and other game hanging until they become "high" enough...