Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth Tom Slick went West to seek his fortune. Starting in the oil fields of Southern Illinois, he followed the derricks as roustabout, mule-skinner, tool-dresser, driller. With dollars accumulated from purchase and sale of oil leases during boom years around 1906, he "wildcatted." No oil. More dollars; another dry hole. Again he drilled. Oil. Fortune. He sold his first holdings for $2,500,000, and took a flier in rails, in utilities. But oil paid better. He returned to the fields, making more money to buy rail holdings. Fortune turned to vast fortune. He built a railroad...
...think just a moment of the field of human endeavor as a Graph with X and Y coordinates. The Y coordinates vertical represent different types of businesses with their various sub-divisions. The steel business, for example, is divided into smelting, mining, and refining, down to machine tool work, making structural shapes, and small metal parts. There are other businesses, smaller perhaps, with various types of products, but which are, nevertheless, separate as businesses...
Shadows of the Cambridge under-world are reported to have cast their sinister menace over the traffic box in Harvard Square night before last. The unseen peril came in the from of a threatening missive from "Feagan's gang" delivered by a "tool" in the guise of a Cambridge schoolgirl. One of the city's most beloved officers, the friend of children and Harvard Square merchants, was informed point-blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only...
Carboloy or widia, shaped into a cutting tool, carves through cast iron, steel, copper, glass, porcelain, bakelite, mica, rubber, their combinations and what not. Carboloy or widia does everything that the finest, hardest tool steel can do, and many another job. Also they cut at much faster speeds. So efficient are they in stepping up machine shop production and in reducing shop costs, that every machinist must use the new metal, even though its present price is $500 a pound, almost the price of platinum, almost twice the price of gold...
Carbaloy (tungsten carbide plus cobalt) machine shop tool metal...