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There was hulking, 55-year-old Chemist Bradley Dewey, who as president of Boston's Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., had been working on synthetic rubber for years before he became Jeffers' right hand. There was tough Engineer Michael James ("Jack") Madigan, the New York bridge builder who became a special breaker of bottlenecks for the War Department, bulled through the no-more-changes-in-technology policy that solidified the rubber program last summer (TIME, July 20). And there were scores of others, in industry and in the Government, who anonymously got things going when bigwigs were not much...
Gist of the funeral orations: 1) the U.S. war plant is now substantially built, therefore the U.S. hunger for machines to build the machinery is almost satisfied; 2) the wartime production of new machine tools will leave the postwar U.S. with enough tools to starve every builder out of the business. Conclusion: the industry is firmly, patriotically digging its own grave...
...Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...Between 1919 and 1939, R.A.F. chiefs labored to make the best available force with the minimum material. They based their force on the earliest foundations of British planecraft. The company founded by the first man to fly a plane in England (1908), A. V. Roe, is today the builder of Avro Anson, Manchester and Lancaster bombers. From the Bristol Box Kite descends today's Bristol Blenheims, Beauforts, Beaufighters...
...restless man. A great builder and maker and shaper, a man delighting in size and height and dimensions: the world's tallest; the town's biggest. . . . A man naturally hopeful . . . foremost of all, a restless man and a believing man, a builder and maker of things and of nations...