Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Reagan Administration about to launch the biggest peacetime defense buildup in U.S. history, the skilled labor shortage threatens to create crippling and inflationary production bottlenecks. Without experienced workers, there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new tanks, into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy...
...facades for Europe's grand Gothic cathedrals were master craftsmen of the Middle Ages, tool-and diemakers are premier artisans of the industrial era. Instead of granite or limestone, their medium hard metal. They create the tools that can cut metal into precise patterns and the dies to mold it into complex shapes...
...Here's the thing," a man from Burgaw County, North Carolina, is telling me. "It weren't like what people think." Burgaw is blue mold and cinch weed country and the guy's name is Slade. Just Slade. "That's enough anyway," says Slade. He's about forty and nowadays he grows tobacco for a living...
...from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before the royal wedding on July...
...Washington shuttle, becoming one of the first of a long line of academics to serve as White House sages. While he personally stroked F.D.R.'s liberalism, he dispatched his best and brightest students, his "happy hot dogs," like Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran, Dean Acheson and Alger Hiss, to mold the New Deal bureaucracy...