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Between them, a man was bending over a makeshift desk, copying information from a calculator and a set of blueprints. Tom nodded across to Roger and they both stepped into the compartment at the same time. "Put up your hands, mister, or I'll freeze you so hard it'll take a summer on the Venus equator to warm you up," Roger drawled.
She had soothed him somewhat even before they reached the back yard and of course the lattices weren't really so bad as they had seemed to his fastidious eye. They did deviate from his neat blueprints.
May be able to save you bother by carrying orders out to McGraw or checking over reports for you." He picked up the vellum-cloth drawings of the central span and some of the blueprints, and began in a matter-of-fact manner to roll them up. "Hold on!" sharply interposed Ashton. "What are you about?" "I'm going to bunk with McGraw. Thought I'd take these over and try to get in touch with the work."
Just a minor item, but it's a starter. We found it in Towne's desk, blueprints all ready, promotion all planned." "Good, good," Torkleson breathed. "I have a directors' meeting right now, have to get the workers quieted down a bit. You put the program through, and give those electronics men three more hours to unsnarl this knot, or we throw them out of the union." He started for the door.
As the 1914-18 war proceeded it became less a series of combats between human beings; more and more it was a war of machines such as battleships, tanks, big guns and by war's end, of airplanes. Human beings drew up the plans, made the blueprints, shifted the gears, pushed the buttons.
Popular speech has taken it in its present connotation from the technical vocabulary of engineering, and the term has brought with it a very refreshing sense of accuracy and practicality. It suggests blueprints and T-squares and mathematical formulæ. A faint and rather pleasant odor of lubricating oil and cotton waste seems to hover about it.
I was working on reduction gears on the cruiser 'Brooklyn' and I kept the blueprints overnight." "How often?" "I can't remember how often. Sometimes the blueprints were kept overnight in my tool box." "You also worked on turbines and other complicated and confidential structural problems on the warship?" "Yes." "And you kept those blueprints overnight, too?" "Sometimes not often.
They seemed worried about that even though I had not said anything about it. "Were they ever left in your possession overnight?" "No. They guarded the blueprints " "My information is that they were left in your possession." "Wells, sometimes blueprints you know, when you work from blueprints sometimes, yes, sometimes blueprints were left in my possession overnight.
Swift, a little later, as the aged inventor and his son were looking over some blueprints which Garret Jackson, an engineer employed by them, had spread out on a table. "I don't exactly know," was the answer. "It's quite a little run from Shopton, because I can't get a through train. But I think I'll start tomorrow." "Why do you go by train?" asked Mr. Jackson.
In 1934 none of us had preparation; we worked without blueprints and made the mistakes of inexperience. Hindsight shows us this. But as time has gone on we have been making fewer and fewer mistakes. Remember that the federal and state governments have done only broad planning. Actual work on a given project originates in the local community. Local needs are listed from local information.
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