Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
Basic Problem. The new tool could be used to further any kind of trade and any kind of world its dominant users wanted. Its avowed purposes were to promote world trade by helping stabilize exchange (through the Fund) and by financing reconstruction (through the Bank). But the Fund can stabilize the relationship between currencies only if the currencies themselves remain reasonably stable...
That 1908 Wattersonianism was more of a boast than a lament. In his own rambunctious time, which lasted 50 years, Marse Henry's paper was branded as a tool of the Freedmen's Bureau, of the Gold Bugs, of the brewers and distillers. Never batting his one good eye, Watterson roared right back at his accusers...
Plant before Design. In the Oak Ridge plant, 6,000 centrifugal pumps were needed which would send a viciously corrosive gas through pipes. There was no time to design such a pump, then tool up a factory to produce it. So Allis-Chalmers took on the job of building the factory first, tooling it up and training the workers, then waiting for the pump to be designed...
...Chicago's Atlas Tool & Engine Co. is making cigaret lighters...