Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Machinery for the new cooperation is provided by the industry's own Automotive Council for War Production (Automotive Council for Air Defense, until Pearl Harbor)-since committees of tool-wise master mechanics, production men from the various companies solve day-today problems right in each other's shops...
...case method of business study has been refined over the past thirty years until it has become a more effective teaching tool than the textbook. A good case combines the suspense of a Hitchcock movie with the pedagogy of Socrates. Teachers no longer labor to illustrate theories with "I knew a guy. . ." stories. In the case system, the illustration is primary, but the principle emerges as the actual situation is discussed. Collection and editing of good cases is, obviously, a difficult...
President of famed Jones & Lamson Machine Co. (turret lathes) in Springfield, Vt., Ralph Flanders actually represents nobody but himself. His expert technical advice was much sought in Washington when he bossed OPM's machine-tool priorities division in 1941. He left when he found himself in conflict with bureaucrats, but his advice continued to be sought...
...race for Senator the Irish Catholics do have a representative though no machine tool, squarejawed, curly-haired New-Dealing Congressman Joseph Edward Casey, who won with the Administration's backing. In November he will face another blue-blooded Republican-the present Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., handsome grandson and namesake of the famous rock-ribbed politico...
...major part of its vast machine-tool, precision-instrument and other industries had been moved beyond the Urals. So Leningrad, to produce its own guns and shells, had to depend on the remaining fraction of its industries...