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...year-old welder was taken to City Hospital in Mobile last fortnight. Doctors said she had meningococcus meningitis. Promptly the ambulance driver was told to take the patient back where she came from-City Hospital, like all Mobile's six hospitals, did not take contagious cases. When the head of the sick girl's rooming house refused to let her in, the driver shouted: "She lives here and she's dying. She has no other place to go. I'm going to put her in here if I have to call the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meningitis in Mobile | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

High Life. In Houston, Welder George W. Witters, unable to find a place to live, moved into a comfortable oak tree where his weekly expenditure is $4 for food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 6, 1944 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...remember Scott as the TIME editor who lived ten years under Stalin's rule, worked first as a welder in Siberian Magnitogorsk, later as Moscow correspondent 'for the London News Chronicle and the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Rocket Gunman | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

California-born Ted Nelson started slowly. After graduating from high school, he spent some 15 years picking up mechanical know-how in machine shops. He finally landed in the Mare Island Yard as a welder. There he fell afoul of a problem that had puzzled the best welding minds for 20 years: the problem of conveniently welding short, pencil-like pieces of metal to perpendicular or overhead surfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Rocket Gunman | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

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