Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toolmakers. In the fast-growing market, the fastest-growing business of all is in the basic machines for the do-it-yourself workshop. Before the war, the power-tool industry rarely topped $25 million in sales; now it is a $200 million business, with a 25% increase predicted for 1954, and its products are America's most popular gadgets. Old companies in the field have suddenly come to life, dozens of new ones have popped up. Such firms as the Rockwell Mfg. Co., DeWalt Inc. and Black & Decker Mfg. Co. have brought out whole lines of better, easier...
...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...
...commands aging forces. I think it is time that they, the leaders, were pensioned off, and I believe the mass of the rank and file would be glad to return to China." Attlee dismissed any suggestion that Mao Tse-tung's China was "a mere tool" of Soviet Russia: "When one is in a difficulty like that, one is apt to seek the nearest help. The U.S. revolution was very glad of the help of Republican France, though no one suggests that Washington and Jefferson approved of the Terror in Paris...
Columbia's dentists consider the new tool a major advance toward completely painless dentistry, but before the Cavitron goes into general production, some 200 will go to other clinics and dental schools for further testing. The average dentist will not be able to get one for many months. Estimated cost per Cavitron...
...ready. Phil Johnson came back from his Canadian exile in 1939 to run the show. Bill Allen worked out production contracts. Wellwood Beall started the production lines humming. A year later, Boeing was in mass production. Orders were coming in so fast that Douglas and Lockheed also had to tool up to produce Boeing planes...