Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towing several inflated rubber bags. When the officer shouted at him, the swimmer dived and escaped. Inspectors who got the bags out of the water found that they contained American tool bits, of a type in great demand in Communist China. The Communist frogman had hoped to attach them to the ferry's hull, for the journey out of Hong Kong's territorial waters. After that, smuggling them into Red China would have been easy...
...when, in order to make time, you may inadvertently have a few small screws left over after repairing a television set. Solution: either put them in your pocket when the customer is not looking or mingle them with other items of the same type you might have in your tool...
...spur atom-bomb protection for key industries, the Government will soon allow companies tax writeoffs on 100% of the cost of building bomb shelters and shoring up plant structures to withstand atom bombing. Slated for the first certificate: Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., biggest U.S. machine-tool builder...
Meanwhile, before last week's sessions broke up, the experts got news of yet another potential medical tool. Nobel Prizewinner Tadeus Reichstein of Basel University announced that he had isolated a powerful adrenal hormone which he provisionally called "electrocortin." Since the newly isolated hormone undoubtedly plays a part in the body's balances. Dr. Hench called electrocortin "the biggest thing" of the congress, but neither he nor Dr. Reichstein would prophesy as to its therapeutic possibilities. Whatever its potentialities in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases, electrocortin will probably not be available in large quantities for some...
...Electronic Drill. A new die sinking and drilling machine, which uses one of the softest metals (copper) as the cutting tool for some of the hardest (tungsten and titanium carbide), is being built by the Elox Corp., Clawson, Mich. The copper, acting as an electrode, can drill a hole one-tenth of an inch in diameter through 40 inches of steel. Expected price...