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"Beats working in an office all day".
If there is one thing there is lots of in Northern Virginia, it is clay...and bureaucrats.
Our newspaper print shop still ran a Merganthaler Linotype machine in the early 1970s. It had plenty of open gears and chains on it. A newly-minted OSHA inspector came around one day and ordered us to paint a thick yellow line around the the clanking beast. Said he, "The women may get caught in it." Little did he know that when the Linotype revolutionized printing in the 1880s, the first operators were women.
It never ceases to amaze me how unnecessarily dangerous life use to be.
I wonder how many fingers and worse were lost to unguarded chains and gears.
"Heck, Clem, your assistant's built like a brick outhouse."
"Shoot, Ezra, my assistant IS a brick outhouse!"
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