Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...knows how to make a good saw and who was Wartime purchaser of helmets and armor for the U. S. Government, watched the construction of one of the world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of Simonds Saw & Steel Co. For him Austin Co., Cleveland construction engineers, is building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made...
...McHugh and Isabelle Reynolds as nuns; Asa Phillips '34, W. L. West '32, and M. P. Smith '32 as shepherds; L. A. S. McCabe '34, H. B. Powers '33, and D. A. Dudley '32 as the three kings; H. B. Wesselman '32 as Herod; R. C. Breithut '31 as armor bearer; B. H. Goldsmith and O. V. Wooten !31 as scribes, Edmund Dorfinan, '33 and R. W. Becher '33 as courtiers; P. G. Hoffman '32 as Joseph, Beatrice Grover as Mary; Alice Martin, Barbara Brentnall, and Barbara Shevlin as pages and P. G. Hoffman '32, as the voice of Gabriel...
...returned to the U. S., started work in Mesta's designing room. Mesta, located in West Homestead, Pa., is a leader in making the big equipment used by steel mills, employs 2,000 men. A notable product was a 14,000-ton press for the U. S. armor plant in South Charleston. A pressure of 14,000 tons is equivalent to the weight of 70 freight locomotives. Other notable products are the tremendous machine tools Mesta makes for its own use. Mesta's net sales last year were over...
...therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior officers were persuaded he knew how to ride?he had to get letters to prove...
...stone structure on the foundations of an old cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal on a barber's pole is balancing a whirling ball on the tip of his nose...