Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
...Reuther, boss of the union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...
...Important Things. For six long years the news had come from overseas. In war-jammed cities the important things of existence had been steel shavings coiling from a machine tool, the glare of a welding torch, the sound of riveting gun and typewriter, the brain fag and weariness of overwork. But now the U.S. experienced the quiet clarity of eye and mind which comes after a long fever...
...fighting men, radar by now is as routine a war tool as a rifle, but it has rewritten the textbooks of warfare. It has also given man a sharp sixth sense which projects him into a world where almost any fantasy seems possible...
Hughes, who divides his time and money between films, tool making, a brewery, flying and financing, owns about 45% of T.W.A. stock. Pan Am, with impish innocence, reminded the CAB of this. By nightfall, Washington remembered that Frye was best man when Elliott Roosevelt married Cinemactress Faye Emerson on the Grand Canyon rim last December. Hollywood instantly recalled that Elliott met Faye through Johnny Meyer, a talent scout and handy man for Hughes. All this occurred while Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House, and before the CAB had ruled on the T.W.A. applications...