Sentenced to a merciless work detail in the subterranean drainpipe after one of Munsey's stool pigeons is killed in a machine-shop accident, Collins determines to hatch a breakout plan with his cellmates. ❋ John Farr (2011)
In 1950, we're told, "FBI agents in New York arrest Lower East Side machine-shop owner Julius Rosenberg, implicated by his brother-in-law David Greenglass in stealing the Secret of the Whatzit, and NBC's We the People broadcasts an interview with Matt Cvetic, longtime double agent within the Communist Party's Pittsburgh chapter, telling a tale of treason and subversion that is currently serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and will soon be acquired by Warner Bros." ❋ Stefan Kanfer (2011)
Instead of looking like some rich man's library, all burled wood and leather, this all-metal cockpit looks like machine-shop equipment. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The drilling industry estimates the moratorium will cost rig workers as much as $330 million a month in direct wages, not counting businesses servicing those rigs like machine-shop workers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Why have programs to reduce price volatility for farmers but not for, say, machine-shop operators? ❋ Unknown (2008)
I once lived three blocks away from the shell of one such school; it had been engulfed by a community college, and classrooms that once hummed with the busy noises of machine-shop equipment and the hiss of hot solder were being used to train a new generation of receptionists, brokers, and medical billing clerks ❋ Papabear (2008)
The shelves, drawer boxes and cabinets are constructed with dovetail joinery, and the metal components are fabricated with machine-shop precision. ❋ Lavardera (2008)
When a machine-shop owner asked for a few extra days to make a loan payment, Mr. MacPhee agreed, and the bank got its money. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"We live in the country and I felt secure with my firearms," says the machine-shop employee. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These original “knowledge workers”—individuals who manipulated ideas and information but rarely touched an actual car or even entered the factory—replaced the skilled machine-shop owners and the old-fashioned factory foremen of the earlier craft era. ❋ James P. Womack (2007)
These Half Life fans built their own "Sentry Gun" as an exercise in order to learn to use their robotic machine-shop tools. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The steerage promenade-deck, iron-sided, black-floored, ending in the iron approaches to the galley at one end and the iron superstructures about a hatch at the other, was like a grim swart oilily clean machine-shop aisle, so inclosed, so over-roofed, that the side toward the sea seemed merely a long factory window. ❋ Unknown (2004)
My great-aunt Lisa and great-uncle Bora used to have a machine-shop in the former Leningrad, where they made custom parts for cars and machines that were in short supply after Glasnost (they lost the shop when it was expropriated at gunpoint by the Russian Mob, who wanted the location: ah, sweet liberty!). ❋ Unknown (2001)
The single bedroom was packed with boxes of old records, cartons of folded mailers for shipping the machine-shop bolts and screws, and two dozen oily gallon buckets of machine-shop rejects that Uncle Jake planned to find a use for. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)
1. Supervisor: Get your ass back over to the [machine shop] and finish that part
2. [Metalhead] 1: Dude, I just won tickets for [Mushroomhead] tomorrow at the [Machine Shop]
Metalhead 2: Sweet. ❋ Scruffy1 (2006)
