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Librarian, Lumberjacks, and Metallurgists introductions

Librarian

It’s quite likely that during their formative years, librarians study the tenacity of ants and bees. The devotion to duty these tiny creatures display must have left a lasting imprint on these people who convert dusty volumes into revolving funds for fiction and research.

Year after year, librarians guide young America through the Land of Oz, and Mark Twain’s time-then first thing you know, into the tales of love. The next step comes with the care and feeding of infants-and in just a few years the cycle starts all over again.

A librarian is more than a teller in a book bank-they extend a helping hand toward research and education, and help us draw love, mystery or melodrama from the open shelves.
Librarians are no book burners-they think too much of literature. They have faith in the freedom to read and respect the reader’s own judgment in accepting what’s good-and rejecting what isn’t.

Lumberjacks

Lumberjacks awaken the woods with the snoring of their cross-cut saws and the crunch of axes as they bite sharply into living wood, before the crash of a tree and a cascade of cusswords after the familiar cry of “Timber!”

Metallurgists

The heat’s on at any parley of the country’s hottest engineers as they ponder over coke oven, blast furnace and open hearth processing of better, cheaper steel. According to a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech, the process begins by mining coal; ends with literally baking the tar out of it. The solid carbon substance that remains, is coke. In the early days coke ovens dotted the countryside like beehives and wasted their vapors but that waste has been harnessed and converted into plastics, nylons and an in-increasing number of “miracle” fibers.

With the coke out of the oven-what about the blast furnace? Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego’s trip to a fiery furnace was all in vain, but when coke, lime and iron ore go into a furnace at 3,000 degrees they come out in the form of molten lava or pig iron-a hot mass next mixed with manganese and carbon over an open hearth fire. The result is modern steel. Continuing research keeps the industry aiming at bigger things. To little folks like you and me, they’ve brought the comforts of metal rails on which we roll to work in the morning, and other conveniences all through the day . . . down to the non-sag springs that support our weary bones at night.

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