Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...philosophy of the aborigines, who lived entirely in the present, referred to both past and future as "the dreaming." In an area almost the size of the U.S., Australia in the 19303 had less than the population of London-and a falling birth rate. It had no machine-tool industry, had never built an aircraft or auto engine, and because of varying track gauges, did not even have a transcontinental railroad...
...wire room, 22 brand-new Teleprinter machines can be put into immediate, two-way communication with offices all over the world-a tool available to the editors of no other magazine. Through the ceilings, pneumatic tubes carry copy from writers to copy desk, to editors et al. As the first week moved toward its deadline, writers fed their material into the tubes and paled with fear that the entire March 21 issue would become jammed and stay forever in the ceiling. But at press time the copy was ready and printed...
...stocks fell lower day by day, there were those on Wall Street who mourned its passing. Cried the New York Herald Tribune: BULL MART ENDS 10-YEAR REIGN. What lured the Tribune out on a limb-and prompted other hasty obituaries of the bull-was an oldtime market tool known as the Dow Theory, fathered by Charles H. Dow, a onetime broker and newspaperman, who founded Dow, Jones & Co. in 1882. The Dow Theory holds that when the Dow-Jones industrial average breaks through its previous low and is confirmed by the rail average penetrating its previous low, Wall Street...
...Prince Albert, Sask., Vickers sang "in every church choir in town," but planned to become a doctor. When he graduated from high school (his father was a school principal), he found the colleges jammed with returning veterans, turned to clerking in Safeway and Woolworth stores, eventually became a tool buyer for the Hudson Bay Co. department store. When he was appearing in an amateur production of Naughty Marietta, the Toronto Conservatory heard of him, gave him a three-year scholarship. But Vickers, who had a horror of becoming "another run-of-the-mill radio singer," decided after eight years that...
Besides renovating the "antiquated" Biological Laboratories, built in 1931, the department plans to re-equip them. "The purpose is to tool-up for the rest of this century" with the modern equipment needed for investigating life at the molecular and sub-molecular level, Williams commented...