Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Production control and industrial engineering require less pure science and more knowledge of problems in work load, manpower allocation, machine tool requirements, and timetable and machinery needs determination...
Seeking a revision in the section of the Federal Communications Act of 1934 which the Supreme Court has interpreted as prohibiting the use of wiretap evidence in Federal courts, Justice Department and FBI officials are hoping to gain the tool which will permit them to prosecute cases in which they lack other types of evidence. If Congress legalizes wiretap evidence, the Justice Department will undoubtedly try to avenge its failure to prove a case against Judith Coplon or to get the grand jury to indict Harry Dexter White...
Whittaker Chambers, former Communist courier, outlined his dealings with White in great detail. The Treasury official, he said, was probably not a member of the Communist Party, but he was its willing and witting tool. He handed secret documents over to the spy ring for copying, and when he was dealing with Whittaker Chambers, he wrote a fortnightly summary of the secret documents that passed over his desk. One of these summaries, in White's own handwriting, was among Chambers' famed pumpkin papers...
...specifications, makes the first part. Each motion of the machine is recorded on a magnetic tape. When the tape is "played back," the machine repeats the motions and turns out a second part just like the first. The machine does not have to stop for such nonproductive motions as tool-setting, so it works twice as fast as when it is worked by hand...
Machine Stethoscope. When the cutting tool of a metal-working machine bites into metal, it makes a sound whose loudness is proportionate to the amount of metal removed. Around this effect, Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has built a new "machine stethoscope." A small microphone measures the noise made by the tool, so that the machine operator can judge if it is cutting too deeply. M-H claims that it helps him work faster and with less fatigue...