Word: welder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland welder, Rollins was one of those college phenoms that the scouts all rush to see-and then dismiss...
...second issue revealed an extremely alarming development in the Observer's news coverage. The article in featured position, somewhat more worthy of its location than its predecessor, was headlined, "U.N. Bond Issue Kicks Up Fuss Across the Land--Chiselers', Says Welder in Milwaukee; Defense From Mr. Stevenson." And although it finally gets around to a serious discussion of the issue, the story was largely a collation opinions from the common man--Seattle fishing company executive, a Milwaukee welder, a treasurer of a federal savings and loan association in Birmingham, and, oh yes, Adlai Stevenson, among several others...
...wife Margaret in Medford, Mass. TT-4's legs were badly damaged, he told her. "They're trying to take us off." Back of her husband's words, Margaret Robertson heard "a loud crunching," as if the tower were being twisted by a monster wrench. Welder Vincent Brown reported to his wife that the tower had been swaying too much for work. "Air Force boys were forever kneeling and saying their rosaries. The horror of it was awful." Elnor Phelan, wife of TT-4's commanding officer, Captain Gordon Phelan, remembers that her husband called...
...tank of diesel fuel, used to test the big ship's generators. (Said Pipe Fitter Solomon Fried: it was like a "carom shot at billiards.") The fuel gushed out over the hangar deck, poured down a bomb elevator well to the deck below. There a spark from a welder's torch set it afire. Lieut. Milano tried to plug the flow, then yelled for workmen to call the Navy Yard fire department. Moments later he peered through a cable hole toward the bomb elevator and "saw orange." He ordered the word passed to all hands to abandon ship...
...Angry Silence has not yet reached the gritty Midlands industrial town of Birmingham, but when it does, its message will have a special meaning for 146 workers in the Birlec engineering factory, makers of industrial furnaces. Tom Dobson, 38, an expert welder earning $42 a week, is in Coventry. Since March 13, no one has spoken to Dobson because he insists on his right to join the Amalgamated Engineering Union instead of either the boilermakers union or the sheet metal workers union, which monopolize the plant. Dobson once belonged to the boilermakers at another plant, was called out on three...