Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe," said Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter, "that it is a sound and calculated risk." Before the first test model had even left the hangar, Boeing Airplane Co. was ordered to tool up for full-scale production of its huge, swept-wing B-52 jet bomber, a bigger, faster version of the B-47. Intended as a replacement for the giant, cigar-shaped B-36 (and as a rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load...
...these rare birds, the millionaire Socialist ... a successful businessman, a past master of monopoly, who has made an immense fortune by 'private greed,' and who, without in any way relinquishing it, has become a convinced Socialist and adherent. His arrogant behavior as a servant and tool of the government will certainly be the subject of continuous attention...
...General Motors' Buick Division got a $25 million contract to tool up to produce the British-designed J-65 Sapphire jet engine (TIME, Oct. 16) for U.S. fighters. The actual engine order (amount not revealed) is the biggest single defense contract ever received by Buick...
...next night. Expecting trouble, many an older concertgoer gave up his ticket to someone younger and hardier. Trouble came swiftly: a woman screamed "Naziknecht" (Nazi tool) when Van Kempen raised his arm, and the old hall became a bedlam of cap pistols, noisemakers, yelling, whistling. Another woman screamed "Shut up!" at the demonstrators. Van Kempen's impresario, sitting next to her, mistook her for a demonstrator and slapped her. "Stop it," she yelled, "you dirty Communist...
...Herod came to General Electric Co. in 1919 from Yale (after a short interlude in the Army) with a tool kit full of honors in mechanical engineering, an extrovert's drive. He asked such questions as: "What does a fellow have to do to become president of a company like G.E.?" In 1945, Herod partially answered his own question. He took over as head of G.E.'s far-reaching subsidiary which runs factories in half a dozen foreign countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Turkey, the Union of South Africa) and sells over $100 million worth of equipment...