Word: welder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Janie Cottrell, 24, sank into her sofa in a pair of dark blue hot pants, crossed her showgirl legs and said, "I wanted to be a certified welder more than anything in the world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like...
...predictable, "Are you serious?" She talked her way into a job, for which she had to commute 110 miles a day. That forced her to quit after a year, but she remembers with pride, "When I left, the company vice president said I was probably the best aluminum welder he had ever employed...
...stared at his small vegetable garden one day last fall, a Collinsville, Okla., welder and farmer named Charles Baker came to the conclusion that his environment was threatened. The reason was 3 ft. underground: a gas pipeline that Baker was convinced would explode like a "time bomb" and maim his family. In four months Baker ran up $1,000 in telephone bills enlisting support from public officials around the U.S. Armed with photographs and witnesses, he then went to the Oklahoma corporation commission, a state agency that regulates pipelines. His charge: the pipeline, part of a $9 million, 144-mile...
...enduring life decently, no matter what, he deeply admires. In this book, for instance, Coles condenses talk and comment, going back as much as five years, with a handful of workingmen and their wives-a steam fitter, a policeman, a filling-station operator, a machinist, a fireman, a welder, a druggist and a bank-loan arranger, the only white-collar man in the group...
...hear young men talk longingly of retirement. That is why the union's demand that workers be allowed to retire after 30 years, regardless of age, on minimum pensions of $500 a month, has become a key issue in the G.M. strike. Says Pete Tipton, 34, a welder for Cadillac: "All I have to look forward to is '30 and out!' I only have a ninth-grade education, so I can't do anything else, but my children are going to stay in school so that they will not have to be subjected to this kind...