machinist
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Joe Kostka, 71, a retired machinist who paints the trail markers, lined up with his 42-year-old son Tim, who flew in from North Carolina.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2025
All around him, workers are cutting the leather into the right shape to hand it to the machinist.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
The last Boeing machinist strike in 2008 lasted eight weeks, securing wage gains and a promise to outsource less plane manufacturing.
From Salon • Sep. 13, 2024
Those who were lost represented a cross-section of Baltimore: line cook, lawyer, bus driver, engineer, machinist, teacher, restaurant owner, carpenter, veteran, physician, salesman and admissions coordinator for an addiction recovery center.
From New York Times • May 23, 2024
The fourteen men ultimately elected consisted of half a dozen farmers, a pharmacist, a nursery manager, an airport employee, a well driller, two salesmen, a machinist, and the manager of Ray’s Bowling Alley.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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