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...other 35 winners included stenographers, doctors, spinsters, a Finnish lumberjack, a Swiss nurseryman, an aerial photographer, a chauffeur, a welder, two dentists, two locomotive firemen...
Ruggiero Ricci, like famed Yehudi Menuhin, 13 (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928), is a San Franciscan and a pupil of Louis Persinger. Unlike Yehudi, he is neither chubby nor Jewish, but a slender Italian. His father is Pietro Ricci, welder in a San Francisco foundry, trombonist, onetime music teacher in San Mateo and Santa Clara public schools. The family is poor, but all the children have unusual musical talent. Rosa, 13, plays the piano; Lorraine, 10, the cornet; Ruggiero, 9, and Giorgio, 7, the violin; Emma, 4, the drums and cymbals; and even Virginia, 2, sings perfectly in tune. Three years...
Electric welding is not new to machine shops, especially locomotive works, but for structural steel work a new type of welder had to be evolved. The "Stable-Arc" welders used by the Morgan Co. were built by the Lincoln Electric Co. of Cleveland and mounted on hand trucks. The process: a high frequency arc up to 300 volts is applied to a bar of steel corresponding to a bar of tinsmith's solder, which is pressed along the crevice between two surfaces that are to be joined. The bar is melted, as are both the girder surfaces along the line...
...reasons for their failure relevant. The fact that they have failed in the important and vital thing. It is high time to bring to bear the influence of the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--as a World-Welder. I need not labour the point to caders of the Harvard CRIMSON that sportsmen--having no ulterior motive can meet and establish mutual understanding and respect when politicians and diplomats are bound to fail...
...used in the Motor Traction course includes several trucks, two motorcycles with side cars, a passenger car, a large reconnaissance body mounted on a White one-ton chassis, and a complete artillery repair outfit, mounted on a Nash chassis, equipped with a power drill, small lathe, pneumatic riveter, oxyacetylene welder and cutter, and complete sets of tools...