Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such machine tool had ever been built before. It took 1 7 months to set up, cost $25,000,000, spread over 3,000 acres, now takes 10,000 men to run it. This Brobdingnagian tool is the' Navy's great new air station at Jacksonville, Fla.-"Jax" for short. Last week, as it spun into full speed, out came its first sample products-three young Ensigns in the U.S. Navy...
...Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said by Hoover to be head of the ring and a "professional spy"; Lilly Barbara Carola Stein, mop-haired artist's model, whose...
Diamonds, essential to certain machine-tool operations, have been shipped regularly to Europe on Italy's Lati planes from Rio. Such exports are now to cease. Japan, large buyer of strategic Brazilian commodities a few months ago, can buy them no more...
...complete shutdown as zinc rationing tightens. Its general manager, Samuel Strasser, has been to Washington for defense business, has written to hundreds of prime contractors. Only result: an invitation from Detroit's Defense Contract Service office to bid on two British fuses. Yet the company has 200 machine tools (only eight of them usable for the fuses), a trained engineering staff, 16 tool & die makers, plenty of plant space for defense work...
...example: a tool manufacturer requires a measurement of 3.3755 inches. This can be made up with four pieces: 3.000, .150, .125, .1005) one on top of the other...