Word: welder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MAGNITOGORSK John Scott, who spent ten years in Russia-first as a welder, then as a research chemist, finally as a foreign correspondent...
...Soviets while he was still at the University of Wisconsin. He figured a good factory worker would be a lot more welcome in Russia than another foreign journalist-so after college he went to the General Electric works at Schenectady and earned his certificate as a master electric welder. He took out a union card here, sailed for Russia-and then went to college all over again to learn the language there...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...
...week, blonde, husky-throated Mrs. Betty Hill Karr, who learned how to wear clothes as a torch singer in Chicago's best nightclubs, got all dressed up for a ceremony that made her No. 1 woman of the C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers. She laid aside her welder's apron and toolmaker's slacks, flounced into her party clothes, pinned an orchid to her shoulder and was off to her local's big celebration...
...Andrew Campriello, spot welder of Italian parentage, developed a better welding technique on steel cases for enclosing electrical equipment aboard cargo ships. Time saved: 3,000 man-hours a year. Award...