Tag: Michael Walsh

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE LEBANON

There could be no possibility of my missing one of two excruciating deaths. If the tug’s propellers didn’t turn me into mincemeat, my drowned corpse would eventually float to the surface after the floating crane had passed over me. Even if the tug stopped, the momentum of the barge would merely spare me the chop from the stilled propellers.

THE BIRTH OF THE FAMILY CAR

Volkswagen was a far better-designed car than its British, French and American counterparts. Bolshevik Russia didn’t have a domestic auto manufacturing industry and was wholly dependent upon the Ford Motor Company, Caterpillar and brands such as Studebaker.

DRESSED TO KILL BUSINESS

Uniforms and tunics are an essential part of working life. Our attitudes toward other people mirror their attire. A very ordinary person you wouldn’t look twice at in the street creates a favorable impression when in overalls, uniform or a nurse’s tunic.