Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knudsen did not expect automakers to turn their present specialized machines and assembly lines to the manufacture of airplanes. He did expect that the automobile industry could turn loose its mass-production brains on the manufacture of airplane parts and engines, in new factories to be built and tooled for this specific job. To build, tool and man the new plants, actually get into quantity production, will take at least a year, perhaps 18 months...
Someone has said that the only thing man learns from history is that man never learns anything from history. Yet man has made great advances. The advances have come when he has invented a new tool, or a new discipline, or discovered and stated a law of Nature or of spirit, or when he has made improvements in nay of these tools, disciplines, or statements. Many of his tools are material, such as the wheel or the telephone, enabling him to use more effectively the external forces of Nature. Some of the tools are intangible, such as intellectual concepts...
...regard to the other tool, we recognize that the sources of energy for our actions are emotions and sentiments; but the universities, though professing to prepare for leadership, seem unwilling to select important attitudes and deliberately train them. We learn how to develop technical skills; why not skill or inner attitude? Yours truly, RICHARD B. CREGG...
...Ordnance Department by insisting out loud that his weapon was better than the Army's Garand rifle (TIME, April 8). The Army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., after many bumbles, last week had Garand production up to 2,300 per week. After a year of agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued...
...hell!" The speech was over. Announcers again smoothly announced that not C. I. O. but the National Committee of Democrats-for-Willkie had put up the $45,000 for John Lewis' 30 minutes. Burly William Stevenson, a Detroit tool & die maker, handed a wire to a Postal Telegraph clerk: ". . . As far as we are concerned, you can go to hell." The clerk demurred; Mr. Stevenson reluctantly compromised on "go to Hades." C. I. O. autoworkers roared, cursed, rebelled. So did bigwigs in Mr. Lewis' mine union, in C. I. O. Vice President (and Defense Commissioner) Sidney Hillman...