Word: maker
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Reuther? Walter Reuther is no Ford, no Knudsen. Neither is he an ignoramus about the automobile industry. A skilled tool-&-die maker for 13 years. he was once good enough to be foreman of a Ford tool-&-die shop. Meantime he studied economics in a university night school, later taught toolmaking in Russia. China, Japan, now knows the automobile industry union-side...
...best represented by three giants: Du Pont, Chrysler, General Motors. Once a munitions-maker, Du Pont had diversified its business to the point where powder was less than 2% of its sales. Chrysler and G. M., too, wanted no part of the war as an investment. Each of these could have refused the unwelcome orders. None did. With bottomless resources, they could have expanded mightily into munitions, cleaned up for a few years. They did not do that either. Each mobilized its men and skills, agreed to build and operate munitions plants for a very nominal sum above cost...
...real significance of Queen Ann's visit to Harvard, though, lies deep in the hearts of the boys at the studio who think her charm, ready wit, and unassuming manner maker her Harvard's sweetheart. And she loves Harvard "gentlemen...
...austere rituals of tea and wine. He had a nightingale for a pet and he tended pots of orchids with his own hands. He woke each day to contemplate an ancient plum tree silhouetted against the white paper shoji-screen. of his bedroom. He represented also the West: constitution-maker, reader of French philosophy, always abreast of international inventions such as Naziism...
...Manhattan's Willard Gallery, visitors read these words of Author William Blake (ThePainter and the Lady) in a 10? catalogue, and gazed, not always sternly, at a thousand devices in 15 plaques on the walls. The plaques stemmed from the numismatic art of the coin and medal maker; they were beautifully cast in low relief in silver or bronze, in various shades and patinas. How they flowered was something else. Husky, wispy-bearded, bighanded Sculptor David Smith called his plaques "Medals for Dishonor," intended them to be awarded for distinguished service in the art of causing and waging...