Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazing property of the polarizing screen to cut glare soon won him a host of backers, and the Polaroid Corporation was founded with Land as President. The polarizers were to form the fundamental tool in the development of many new optical projects, many still completely "classified" because of their defense value. Land is the inventor of the Polaroid-Land camera, which enables the amateur photographer to take a picture and see it developed in less than one minute...
...wildly contradictory. But their common purpose is the big smear. With a calculated appeal to the varying prejudices of their intended readers, they portray Ike in bewildering succession as a Roman Catholic, a sick man, a Jew, a warmonger, a white supremacist, a coddler of Negro troops, a tool of Russia, a lackey of Wall Street, a front for New Dealers and a pal of Joe Stalin...
Bottleneck Stopper. One of the chief bottlenecks of aircraft production, the making of turbine blades for jet engines, may be solved by a new machine developed by England's Omes, Ltd. Already in operation at the Utica (N.Y.) Drop Forge & Tool Corp., the machine precision-forges blades in half the time and at half the cost of present methods. Price...
...harms remain unconcerned, this minority will grow bolder and more effective. And so long as pressure groups maintain the success they enjoy now, more and more organizations--formerly useful and respected parts of society like the NAACP--will go the way of the American Legion, using censorship as a tool to further their rigid doctrines...
...audience of 2,500 applauded, but few came forward to sign up. Boer nationalists like the Reformed Church precisely because it is such a handy political tool. Less politically minded churchgoers, instead of joining Reformed splinter sects like Devos', have switched to other Protestant sects or to Roman Catholicism. "Like vultures battening on a dead body," the church's official newspaper, Kerkbode, commented, "the sects batten on the church." Angrily the political predikants have rebuked Roman Catholic nuns for refusing to discriminate in hospital work between blacks & whites...