Word: welder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week a long awaited improvement was under way at Ste. Cunegonde's. Workmen with acetylene torches were installing a new elevator. The old folks, who daily shuffled up four flights of stairs to their fifth-floor quarters, were overjoyed. Only Fortunat Taillefer, 70, who once had been a welder's helper, fretted about the acetylene torches blazing away so close to the tinderlike stairwell and the old wooden floors...
...Navy in World War I. At 26 he joined General Motors' export division as a trainee, was made head of the division in a year. His reason: "The guys who were teaching me were even dumber than I was." He soon switched to a top post at Wilson Welder & Metals Co., Inc., where he pioneered in the infant electric welding system. In early New Deal days, Bransome headed the rubber division of NRA. Says he: "I worked under old 'Ironpants' Johnson. I didn't know one thing about rubber and told NRA that, but they said...