Word: know-how
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...they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into "Now, dad, you'll see me scooting around the country on a motorcycle." Tom Jr.'s buddy ribs him with "Well, fly boy, want to sell your jet cheap...
...first of a new line of earthmovers, excavators and powered dump cars came off the assembly line in Japan. If the gods do look favorably on the enterprise, it will be because of the foresight of Julien R. Steelman, 47, president of Milwaukee's Koehring Co., which supplied know-how and a small amount of capital, and Japanese Industrialists Toshio Doko and Hiroyuki Hayashi, heads of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry, which furnished most of the capital and a plant. Together they formed the Ishikawajima-Koehring Co., to provide Japan with the tools for some of its major construction projects, notably...
...achieve the necessary increase, the world will need to produce more than four times as much energy by the end of this century as it does now. The demand for more energy is already being felt in backward countries, where the U.S. and Western Europe, by exporting capital and know-how, are setting up a "spiral of industrialization" which will mechanize underdeveloped areas. Say the Woytinskys: "This is a one-way road, and there is no going back to grinding grain and making flour at home...
...Intellectual training, once the unquestioned focus of every educational effort, has been pushed out to the periphery of the public school program. Into the vacuum have rushed the 'experts' from state departments and colleges of education: the curriculum doctors, the integrators, the life-adjusters-the specialists in know-how rather than knowledge...
...other men are old at 50. Actually, younger men are better only in physically exhausting jobs that require great muscular exertion. In more highly skilled jobs, such as tool & diemaking, skill increases with experience. Though older men lose some of their zip, they make up for it with their know-how, less waste, and greater dependability...