Word: toole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institution. A search through the modern catalog of courses reveals offerings from Greek Practice to Refrigeration, but the strength lies in the latter type of course. There is no course in Mongolian, nor is there a Seminar in Finnegan's Wake. But there is economics of the Household, and Tool Engineering...
...Long Shots. Budd Sr. died in 1946 and Edward Jr., who had grown up in the company as tool & die maker, factory foreman and general manager, took over as president. He cut out the long-shot experimenting on such things as a stainless steel amphibious plane, and concentrated on railroad and auto equipment. Budd became the world's biggest independent producer of auto body parts, began paying its first regular dividends in 16 years...
...never been arrested before," he said, as officers went through his pockets before putting him in a cell. "All this is pretty amazing." When the U.S. marshal held up an odd-looking tool he had been carrying, he explained: "That's the handiest gadget. It opens bottle tops and cans and things." He beamed as the marshal answered: "We'd better keep this pocket-sized machine shop. It might open a jail door, too." Before he was led away he said, approvingly: "It certainly is good to know the federal agents . . . and security officers are really on their...
...bigger aircraft, ever more powerful engines. He went looking for a place to build a brand-new air-cooled engine that would outclass the liquid-cooled engines such as the French Hispano-Suiza which then dominated the air world. He found his spot at the Pratt & Whitney tool company, a generations-old firm of precision instrument makers. When Rentschler unpacked his plans for the engine and predicted that the U.S. Navy would need hundreds of them for the planes of its infant carrier force, the shrewd Yankees wasted little time on bargaining. They promised Rentschler...
...North Korea. But outside of economies, the nation was simply not prepared to fight this kind of war. It was caught up by new doctrines. It had been waiting for an all-out atomic war. The great tool was to be the B-36. It was that kind of war that Louis Johnson had in mind when he said: "I want Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around...