Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tool. But many a civilian was no better off. They too waited in long lines in railroad stations, were jampacked into coaches, slept where they could find room to curl up. There was this difference, however: for the G.I.s, things would probably get better. (The Army was already experimenting with a plan to have them sleep in eight-hour shifts in Pullmans, thus triple the number of berths.) But for civilians things could only get worse...
Wanted: a Simpler Tool...
...links-an international language. Maybe the boys at San Francisco think that Morse Code will be sufficient. The spectacle of the heads of great powers having to rely on interpreters for even a simple exchange of salutations looms grotesque and barbaric in a world that has utilized the tool of language since the dawn of its history...
...tool (until now a military secret) is a tube which looks like a pea shooter. It has a waterproofed electrode which heats metal electrically to 6,000-10,000° F., and a jet which shoots a stream of pure oxygen, slicing rapidly through the molten plate...
...problems than the steel supply before they could count on fast-moving assembly line operations. Now auto manufacturers had a hunting license, but they still needed to know how soon: 1) their military orders would be sharply cut; 2) they could clear the acres of special purpose Government-owned tools from their plants; 3) machine-tool manufacturers could deliver the some $40 million of new machinery needed to get back to the manufacture of 1942 models; 4) hundreds of subcontractors, each with baffling reconversion problems of their own, could start the endless flow of wheels, tires, textiles, special metals...