Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...darkness of early morning in Washington, Britain's Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks pulled on a topcoat over his pink pajamas and, along with Lady Franks and their two daughters, hurried out to watch a $10,000 fire raze a tool shed on the embassy grounds. The fireside group was soon joined by a neighbor, New Zealand's Ambassador Leslie Knox Munro, who for the occasion wore striped pajamas and a loud Paisley bathrobe...
...always been followed at a distance of course by hordes of undergraduates worshipping in his footsteps. During the 30's when political activity ran unchecked through the streets of Cambridge. Conant was a frequent target for extemist student groups. The fat left wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in. "The Nation" by a former head of the University. News Office who denounced Conant but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer its finances...
...College's activities. John F. W. Whitbeck, captain of the tennis team, again captured the University tournament. A strong track team led by Juniors Alfred Miller and Ells worth Haggerty dominated the indoor Eastern tracks and won the IC AA indoor championship. The debating team tool the measure of Oxford arguing that Socialism "was detrimental to human progress...
...nation's snail-paced arms buildup, North Carolina's new plant is good news of a special sort: it represents the first entry of private U.S. enterprise into the complicated business of developing guns for aircraft. The company that will try the job is the Oerlikon Tool & Arms Corp. of America, subsidiary of Switzerland's century-old Oerlikon Works...
...hrle, who went to Oerlikon from Germany to run the company for its German owners in 1924, had proved that he knew as much about business as about guns. When he took over, Oerlikon was a machine-tool company with few tools, no liquid assets, a work force of 80, and no orders. Biihrle looked around for a new product, bought the patents on a 20-mm. cannon. Within five years, orders for it were pouring in from China, Finland, Japan and South America. By 1936, Bührle bought up all the stock in the company...