Mr. McVeigh worked as a machine operator at a General Motors auto parts plant in Lockport, a town of about 25,000 on the banks of the Erie Canal, a few miles from the family home in Pendleton.
But they did not work as well as his killing machine.
Worked as a machine operator for 13 years, but lost that job when the plant closed.
He was a commercial fisherman and worked as a machine operator for Grumman for 28 years.
Once in West Germany, Cejka started to play golf, while his father worked as a machine engineer.
The son of a rural truck driver, he worked as a machine operator at an oil refinery and graduated from a technical institute through correspondence courses.
Mr. Farmer, who neighbors said worked as a machine operator at an amusement park at Coney Island, died of one stab wound near his collarbone, the police said.
Anatoly Alter immigrated from Kiev, Ukraine, in 1978, worked as a machine operator in Manhattan's fur district and now owns one of the fur emporiums on Brighton Beach Avenue, a shop lush with mink, sable and ermine coats.
Muybridge, whose work gave rise to motion pictures, worked as the machine was coming into its reign, writes Rebecca Solnit in the recently published "River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West".
It is lucky that Kelly Down's father worked as a machine operator at Bell Bay Aluminium, because it meant that her transition from fashion student to fitter and turner at the smelter was less of a shock than it might have been.
