Word: wiper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Cities Service Empire went down, torpedoed and burning off Florida, 30 were saved, eleven lost. Said John Walsh, wiper: "I saw our captain on a life raft. He and some of the other men were on it and the current was sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed. I didn't hear him. . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. He was screaming that he was going blind. . . . Gus, the quartermaster, was with...
...Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into electric fans. Done up in a shower cap with windshield wiper, rubber gloves and raincoat, Moran explained his theory of release, let fly at an electric fan. There was a dull plop. The man at the fan had neglected to turn...
Died. Walter P. Chrysler, 65, locomotive wiper who became one of the three greatest automobile producers in the U. S.; after long illness; in Great Neck, Long Island. Son of a railroad engineer, Machinist Chrysler in 1905 bought an automobile with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it apart and reassembling it until he found what made it tick. In 1911 he resigned a $12,000-a-year job as general manager of American Locomotive Co. to work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably...