Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geometry at eleven, but resented having to accept the axioms of Euclid. Years later, this spark of rebellion touched off an explosive book, Principia Mathematica, in which he and the late great Alfred North Whitehead treated mathematics as "a branch of logic," and armed philosophers with a complex thinking tool known as "symbolic logic...
Blunders & Bottlenecks. Inexplicably, the mobilizers' worst blunder was one which World War II experience should have made impossible. If World War II taught anything, it was the crucial importance of machine tools-the machines which make machines, and without which defense plants cannot tool up to make jet engines, airframes, tanks or anything else. Yet Wilson failed to realize that machine tools held the key to the whole armament program. I.T. & T.'s William H. Harrison made the original blunder by refusing to treat machine tools any differently from "pots or pans," denying them priorities. Price Boss Mike...
...lunch, said Oliphant, Grunewald made "casual inquiry" about the Teitelbaum case. Oliphant checked the record at his office and told Grunewald the status of the case. Two days later, Oliphant acted to speed up prosecution of Teitelbaum-a handy tool for the fixers, who had, so Teitelbaum said, threatened him with speedy prosecution if he didn't come across with a $500,000 bribe. But Oliphant just couldn't remember why he did that...
...Abolish the special set of requirements for new publications. It hardly seems necessary for such a publication to be forced to reveal its proposed "policy" and "content" when it is already required, under the rules for all organizations, to demonstrate that it is strictly autonomous and not a tool of some outside group...
First link in the chain was Harry Phillips, boss of Steubenville, Ohio's Ohio Valley Tool & Die Co. He bought a 74,780-lb. load of sheet steel from Weirton Steel's West Virginia mill at a price of $5.20 to $5.90 per hundredweight. After the steel was delivered, Phillips obligingly passed it on, at $7.50, to his brother Matthew in New Cumberland, W. Va., who promptly sold it for $9 to Isadore Forman, a Pittsburgh steel broker and "friend of the family...