Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...addition, many of the tools would have little peacetime value, because they were either designed solely for war work or were all but worn out by round-the-clock production. Furthermore, Britain was barred by agreement from selling the tools abroad for at least five years after V-E day, thus protecting the U.S. machine-tool industry's export markets...
Nevertheless, Britain was pleased: the tool purchase cleared the decks for British reconversion. As long as the U.S. owned the tools, Britain could not shift them to making civilian goods, and Britons have worried lately that the U.S. would thus get the jump on them in postwar trade. With this obstacle out of the way, Britain promptly listed $12,000,000 worth of tools as surplus, so that makers of civilian goods could buy them...
Mechanical treadmills have long been the scientists' valuable tool to induce fatigue in its human guinea pigs. By analyzing the air exhaled by a subject as he walks the treadmill, the lab is able to discover how much oxygen is being consumed in the work. The experiments have been conducted under all weather conditions and the results compared so that the effects of climate on energy and fatigue can be accurately measured...
Such companies as Baldwin Locomotive Works, Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co., H. K. Ferguson Co. and American Cyanamid supplied FEA with detailed specifications...