Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three days after the Guild convention ended last month, Bill Laurence sent in his resignation from the Guild. Thereupon, Bill Laurence learned that under Guild rules he cannot resign, can only be expelled. If the Guild had a Guild shop at the Times and he were expelled from the Guild he would also have to be discharged...
Pipe-sucking Oscar Bruno Bach began his career in Germany. At the age of 18 he made a wrought-metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII. He came to America 26 years ago, set up shop in Manhattan as a metal craftsman and industrial designer. Turning out Renaissance church doors, table lamps, fruit bowls, salt shakers and a streamlined typewriter, he inspired publicity agents to call him "the American Cellini...
...pretended that he thought the fireworks were in honor of his arrival, he has been a natural for joshing Warner press-agentry. Everyone in Hollywood knows that the first thing he did when he got there was to buy a Packard which he kept bringing back to the shop until a curious mechanic found that he never shifted the gears beyond second. Son of an architect, graduate of Budapest's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art, a famed European director when the Warners tapped him to replace Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz (né Kertez) is the butt of more...
...work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...
...camp pay and their regular salaries. At Joseph Hogan's private airport, excavation work was under way to turn it into a military field for the civil aeronautics training program. Awaiting only a Government go-ahead signal were 400 unemployed young men to take initial courses in shop and foundry work and advanced technical skills...