Lloyd Graff
Forum: Looking Good in 2011
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 Note: Harrold Vonage lives in Silicon Valley and is our unofficial Mennonite historian. Your piece on 2011 really got my [...]
Editor’s Note: The Fiction of Money
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 The New York Mets ownership group is trying to sell 25 percent of the team because they are being sued [...]
The Great Masthead Debate
Dan, Pels our publishing guru for Screw Machine World magazine, thought he was asking a simple question yesterday, “What title should we put on the masthead under your name, Lloyd?” [...]
Dear Michael Bloomberg
Dear Michael Bloomberg (Mayor of New York City), Just wanted to alert you that I am available, if the hours are right, to join the stable of writers of your [...]
Success After 26 Years of Losing
CalTech has had 32 Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, but in sports they are just a bunch of losers. The college basketball team had lost every conference game for [...]
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of Curtis Screw
Gary Pletscher hopped out of his Ford pickup at 5:55 a.m. on November 10thand marched across the Thielman Drive asphalt, anticipating a 13-hour siege of problem-solving amidst the whispering of [...]
Twenty Four Hours in the Life of Curtis Screw
By Lloyd Graff Gary Pletscher hopped out of his Ford pickup at 5:55 a.m. on November 10thand marched across the Thielman Drive asphalt, anticipating a 13-hour siege of problem-solving amidst [...]
Swarf: Taking the Plunge
The key question facing American manufacturers, especially contract machining shops in the next two years is, how do you expand? Or, the interesting corollary question, is this the time to [...]
Machining Industry Scuttlebutt
Interesting juxtaposition of auction sales. Corporate Assets sold Die-Matic in Hamilton, Ontario. Gorgeous machinery including a 2004 L-20 Citizen and a 2003 M-20 Citizen . With buyers premium the L-20 [...]
Working Under the Table
I am seeing a lot of anecdotal evidence of people playing the system when it comes to receiving unemployment benefits. We have been seeking to hire a part time worker. [...]