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Already aboard were 400 U.S. Naval officers, sailors, 300 Coast Guards. Working on her were 1,500 civilians. In the grand salon on the promenade deck, a workman with an acetylene torch cut through the last of four ornamental steel stanchions. So close to him that his back touched them as he worked were piled kapok life preservers, wrapped in tar paper and burlap...
...snowy afternoon, in Flint, Mich, a little knot of men stood around a shiny black Chevrolet coupe in Assembly Plant Number Two. Someone had scrawled on its rear window in white crayon: last Chevrolet off Jan. 30, 1942. A reporter and a veteran Chevrolet workman climbed into the car. The reporter stepped on the starter, drove off the assembly line, turned the lights on & off, honked the horn. The strident little beep, echoing through the acres of suddenly silent machinery, signaled the end of an epoch in U.S. industrial history...
...grinned, joked, washed up and wandered outside to line up before the pay window. A passing workman gave the last Chevrolet an affectionate kick in the rear-as it might be a farmer slapping an old horse. They knew that a chapter in their lives was over. Some current of emotion-half-abashed, selfconscious, a sentiment that seemed a little ridiculous when dedicated to inanimate machinery-moved through the crowd, finding its outlet in the horseplay, the offhand talk, the what-the-hells with which American workmen cover up what they feel...
...head trainer, first came to the Dillon Field House he found that the training room was more of a recreation center than a medical station and that his charges, led by Kevorkian, much preferred a water-fight to a massage. After a struggle, order and a workman-like atmosphere were restored and horseplay put in its place, to break forth only occasionally, as when Torby MacDonald put a missile through one of the windows during a recent tape-ball fight...
Chief Boston sent his Freshman charges through their first scrimmage of the year, which clearly showed the difficulties faced by a coach in producing a workman-like eleven out of 130-odd totally unknown candidates inside of a week...