Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the victims are self-admitted patsies, whose usual wariness evaporated in dreams of heady 12%-14% interest. "Sure I was a sucker. I thought I could double our money," concedes Philip Profita, 60, a Fort Myers machinist who bought $21,000 worth of promissory notes from now defunct Homestate Investments Inc. Even though a local banker warned him against it, Floyd Campbell, 69, a retired service engineer, invested $35,000 in what he thought was first mortgages in a Continental Investments Inc. development. "The banker said he couldn't afford to pay interest like that," Campbell recalls...
...stolen the secret was encouraged by a series of shocking facts: the 1950 arrest of English Physicist Klaus Fuchs, who confessed to supplying Russia with atomic information; the admission by Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold that he had been Fuchs' American courier; the arrest of David Greenglass, an Army machinist at Los Alamos during World War II. Greenglass was Ethel Rosenberg's brother. He told the FBI that he had been Gold's accomplice. He added that his brother-in-law Julius Rosenberg had recruited him to steal secrets from Los Alamos...
...never feel here that these workers are too immiserated. At some points the deftness of a spray painter, or the practiced touch of a door fitter, becomes surprisingly absorbing; at others, the jerky, repeated shifting of an eye as a girl watches her machine, or a stoic machinist impart the pain of a single muscle and the exhaustion of an unmoving face...
Abplanalp was born in The Bronx to Swiss immigrant parents. His father was a machinist who instilled in his son a liking for gadgetry and tinkering. Abplanalp studied engineering at Villanova, but dropped out to open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak...
...What bothers me is that the image of the country is hurt," says Bud Bongard, 46, a machinist. "We don't talk about Watergate much at the shop or at home. I used to read about it every day, but now the press is overdoing it, and I'm back to the sports pages...