Groundman

As a matter of practice, most captains leave the rolling to the groundman, who may usually be trusted to know what is best, and act accordingly.

He had extracted it from the groundman, who had extracted it from Sneard's gardener, who had extracted it from Sneard's housemaid, with whom he was on more than friendly terms—so of course it was authentic.

The groundman and mechanic will find it of aid in passing the required examinations for the mechanics' license and ratings.

Groundmen had to be employed to assist, and subsidiary signal boxes were required to watch over the condition of the platform roads and the yard lines, for there were no track circuits.

While two linemen with aerial lift and one groundman completed one new structure, remainder of crew moved on to set poles for another structure.

The groundman was in the bucket, and the foreman was on the ground.

Under these circumstances, in order to avoid any accident and damage to the aircraft, the groundman responsible for marshalling the loads gave a signal to the pilot for ejecting the load, which prevented a possible disaster.

Alma Reed was hired as a groundman Sept. 7, 1971. progressing to apprentice lineman C on July 1. 1972. He transferred to groundman tree trimmer April 1, 1974.

Because he was found to have insulin-dependent or type one diabetes, he couldn't be licensed to pilot airplanes, but he liked the excitement of being around the, "birds," as he called them, and agreed to work as an airframe/powerplant mechanic and groundman to set up advertising banners for aerial pickup during the peak tourist season.