Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Waves Know. A new electronic tool is much more promising than radar. As far back as 1947, Dr. Herbert L. Jones of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mining College discovered that lightning flashes from tornado clouds send out "sferics" (atmospheric radio waves) of unusually high frequency. Such waves can be detected a long way off, and distinguished from ordinary thunderstorm sferics...
...were laid off, but, after standing in line at dawn daily for a week, Reuther got a job at Briggs (85? an hour). "I looked like I fell off a green apple tree," he later recalled. Soon he got a better job ($1.10 an hour) at Ford as a tool-and-die leader bossing 40 men. He discovered his own talents. He also discovered that he was not very interested in making money...
Reuther has displayed the winner-take-all talents of a Commando leader in his strike strategy. In 1939, to save strike funds, he pulled out General Motors tool-and-die men at exactly the right moment to stop all production; the other workers, technically nonstrikers, collected state unemployment compensation. In 1937, during the bitter, G.M. sitdown at Flint, Mich., he helped to organize the seizure of a key building and stop production...
...Stop Communist Aggression by Taking the Initiative in the World Contest for Men's Minds, Hearts and Loyalties." President Roosevelt called him "our engineer." Reuther's rival, R. J. Thomas, present on one such occasion, quickly corrected F.D.R.: "No, Mr. President, he's only a tool-and-die maker...
...left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized as a businessman, as diplomatic as a Jesuit and apparently as pacific as a field of wheat." Only the Communist daily L'Humanité threw a solid brickbat: it felt sure that Billy was a tool of millionaires "employed in the crusade against socialism...