Word: welder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Police reported more than 100 jackknifed tractor trailers, and by midweek the city of Dallas, where the temperature dropped to 11°, had come to a virtual standstill as government offices and businesses stayed closed. "I'm a native Texan, and this weather has just bamboozled me," said Welder Bobby Labar...
...streets are only temporarily homeless-poor people whose predicament is the result of some personal catastrophe. Of the families lodged by New York City, a third have been evicted from apartments for not paying rent; the rest were driven out by fire or building condemnation. Ronald Thompson, a welder laid off in Texas, moved his wife and two small boys to Seattle last summer, hoping to find shipbuilding work. He did not, and the Thompsons, broke, finally spent weeks in a barren charity apartment. "I always thought I could give my family a home," he says. "Now, well, it just...
Fred Korematsu was a name that had lived in constitutional infamy. The Oakland-born steel welder refused to obey a 1942 military order banning all people of Japanese ancestry from San Leandro, Calif. As a result, he was called a "Jap spy" in a newspaper headline, sentenced to five years' probation and removed to a detention camp. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the evacuation order, thereby enshrining his name as a legal landmark. Later, when many began to question the internment of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens, Korematsu vs. United States was known to jurists...
...scrap that was arbitrarily upgraded on the site. About 70% of the welds on the plant's structural beams did not meet industry standards. To test the welds now, inspectors will in some cases have to cut out at random one made by each of the hundreds of welders who have worked on the project, examine it and then accept or reject the rest of that welder's work on the basis of the sample. Given the difficulties of these and other tests, the utilities may find it easier simply to junk the plant...
...first two weeks of its release, the movie Flashdance, an airheaded $8.5 million romance about a pretty Pittsburgh welder, earned $11.3 million and, more remarkably, for Paramount Pictures, improved its business the second week. The Flashdance LP, with ten songs from the film's nonstop pop-rock score, has sold 700,000 copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records...