Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...registers, highway bridges, ferryboats, saltwater anticorrosion systems and new metal alloys. Republic Aviation has signed up to build the British Hovercraft air-cushion vessel in the Western Hemisphere, and Boeing and Grumman are both experimenting with hydrofoil boats. Sperry Rand's defense engineers have produced a machine tool that is run by a computer, and Glendale's Electronic Specialty Co. is diversifying into heating and ventilating equipment. Ampex Corp. has reduced its military business from 62% of sales to 30% by bringing out a new line of hot consumer audio and video tape-recording products...
...McDonnell Aircraft saves $28 and 15 man-hours on each engineering layout by using cameras for reproduction. As a protection against forgers, cameras snap pictures of people who cash checks in supermarkets and banks. Newark's Beauty Industries Inc. uses an instant-picture Polaroid as a sales tool, photographing a beauty parlor's client and then overlaying different hair styles on the photo so that the customer can see how she will look...
...really sudden, nor was it an invention. It was a slow discovery. And it had begun where Bucky Fuller likes to begin: with a probe into the pattern of the universe. To make that probe, Fuller was struggling to develop a new tool-a geometry of energy. In this search of such a geometry, Fuller was using spheres as idealized models
...plushest Alpine resort at Megève, has large shares in a European travel club (100,000 members and 17 vacation villages), and has helped finance hotels for Pan Am's Intercontinental Hotels Corp. Besides his controlling or significant interests in two dozen other enterprises-the biggest machine-tool company in Brazil, supermarkets and mutual funds in Europe, a pipeline from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean-Edmond is a partner with the British Rothschilds in building both economy and luxury (up to $90 per day for a couple) resorts in Israel...
Dean Ford writes that a "good examination to European history... offers the student a chases to see his knowledge of facts learned relating them wherever possible to arms and periods outside the specific subject of the course." In his opinion the exam should become "a teaching tool in its own right...