Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must shatter the nerves of a Russian writer to worry constantly whether the new party doctrine or revised state formula of 'social realism' or 'formalism' or 'objectivism' . . . has already become passe and the mark only of a 'decadent counter-revolutionary tool of the fascists.' " Lasky expressed his sympathy for Soviet writers who "suddenly find themselves excommunicated as 'poisonous dregs' [because they do not write] odes to the new five-year plan...
...Many Planes. The American transport plane is a vital tool of air power. But the airlines themselves were in a bad way; in the first seven months of 1947, only Eastern and Inland Air Lines managed to make an operating profit. Though September traffic was the greatest in the industry's history, the overall prospect for 1947 was still a loss. The airlines were in no shape to boost the sagging airframe industry; they ruefully informed the commission that they had already overbought on new equipment. All had been caught in the squeeze of higher wage, supply and other...
...onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full name-calling treatment: "Liar . . . stab in the back . . . tool of the employers. . . . Redbaiting ... no purpose save to capture control of the union for outsiders...
Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, recently retired as deputy commander of the U.S. Air Forces, got the first civilian job of his 51 years: vice president of storm-tossed Millionaire Howard Hughes's placid Hughes Tool...
...Everywhere we have gone," said Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, machine-tool manufacturer, ex-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and subcommittee chairman, "we have found that the margin of profit per dollar of sales has been very narrow." Robert A. Seidel, vice president of the W. T. Grant Co. (500 stores), testified that Grant's margin of profit in the first six months this year was only 3.1% of the consumer's dollar, compared to 6.4% in the same period last year. The committee also pinned down another fact: despite all the hullabaloo...