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...with his crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...meet Inspector Herman Lang, employed by the makers of the famed U.S. secret Norden bombsight. He was to set up a radio transmitter and operate it. So, weighted down with instructions, fake names, five messages in microfilm hidden in his watch, and $1,000 for a starter, William Sebold returned to Manhattan...
...alleged spies in Manhattan this week United States At torney Harold M. Kennedy solemnly told the jury he would show7 that the Nazis had. got the secret from one of the defendants: German-born Herman Lang. Defendant Lang was in a position to get it: he was final inspector of the sights in the Carl L. Norden Inc. plant in Manhattan. Furthermore, Prosecutor Kennedy charged it had been turned over to Germany in 1938. Apparently the Nazis have had it for three years during which it has remained a secret of secrets...
George Price's veneration for highbrow art goes back to his early infancy, when he lived near the late U.S. realist and cowboy painter Pop Hart in Coytesville, N.J. Price never went near an art school. He worked for General Electric as an inspector of soldering, did odd layout jobs in printing offices, finally landed with a poster and theatrical scenery outfit where he painted backdrops for vaudeville houses. In 1927, he went to Paris, spent four months drawing. After he got back to the U.S. he crashed The New Yorker with a $30 cartoon, has been cartooning ever...
Installed in Hitler's Cabinet as Inspector General of Roads, Engineer Todt's first great job was to plan and build the Autobahnen. He employed as many as 250,000 men at a time. He covered Germany from Belgium to Poland and from the North Sea to Austria with a network of model high-speed highways, which could be used equally well for military or commercial transport. With the annexation of Austria and the conquest of Poland, Road-builder Todt added new links...