Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretend that his chief qualification for his new job is his "unprejudiced ignorance" about education. But in reality, he has already gone far with his plans for the academy's curriculum. On the technical side, cadets will start off with two months of indoctrination in everything from military drill to servicing aircraft. After that will come a three-year aircraft observer's course (355 hours on the ground, 171 in the air), which will qualify cadets as full-fledged navigators and bombardiers. In their last year, the cadets will finally start training as pilots. But for General Harmon...
Coffee & Clinics. Hardware merchants have learned to make it easy for men like Bernstein to wander in for a gimlet (25?) and then persuade themselves that what they really need is a power drill ($25). Manhattan's Patterson Bros., which has been in business since 1848 and used to supply machine shops and small industries, now sells 95% of its products to the shoulder trade. Customers can look over 60,600 items, including ten different types of paints, varnishes and lacquers in 150 colors, shelf upon shelf of nuts, bolts, screws, doorknobs and window catches, all arranged in neat...
This year U.S. industry will put out millions of do-it-yourself kits, print up plans for hundreds of thousands more projects. Milwaukee has a Rentit store that will rent out a big power saw ($35 a week) or a small electric drill ($10 a week). California's Glasspar Co., which started off with $1,000 capital in 1950, is up to $585,000 annual sales selling knockdown Fiberglas sports cars for $1,466.50, without engine. Michigan's Chris-Craft Corp. has 21 different do-it-yourself boat kits ranging from a $49 pram...
...business annually v. $5,346,000 in 1939. Other firms, such as Skil Corp., Shopmaster, Magma Engineering Co. (TIME, March 29), have brought out portable and stationary power tools to do half a dozen different jobs. Magma Engineering's versatile Shopsmith tool is a complete home workshop, with drill, lathe, saw and sander all rolled into one. Price: $269.50. But the real tinkerer who plans to do extensive woodworking likes to buy tools to perform each task separately and he generally has enough to outfit a small factory...
...Compleat Handyman. In his home workshop, the compleat handyman usually starts out buying a little $25 utility drill to act as a portable sander, buffer and saw. If he wants to make furniture, he discovers he needs a bigger, stationary tool for ripsawing heavy pieces of wood, buys himself an arbor saw for $150. Next he wants a jointer for cutting precise corners, which costs him $130. Then he wants something to drill deep, accurate holes, and so buys a drill press for $100. As he graduates to fancier work, and starts putting intricate filigrees in his woodwork, he needs...