Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much their war as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Having made this decision, difficult for them, Americans not only made their contribution in blood and military skill to the defeat of Naziism, they also provided the greatest part of the machinery which overmatched slavery as a tool...
Meanwhile in Russia the Wehrmacht fought almost, but no quite, to Moscow; lost some ground in a winter campaign but pushed on again to Stalingrad. In September 1942 the attack on Stalingrad began. The Russians had already lost over half their steel capacity, 40% of their machine-tool industry, the whole fertile Ukraine-and 6,000,000 casualties. The Allies had traded men and miles for time, and they were closed to the ragged edge. That September of 1942 the Germans stood at the Nile and the Volga. The British were digging tank traps in the Khyber Pass, to keep...
...packed with adventure, suspense and endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...
...Tool for the Job. What was significant to U.S. industrialists, worried by the C.I.O.'s streak of socialistic thinking, was labor's wholehearted agreement that a "system of private competitive capitalism must continue to be the foundation of our . . . expanding economy. . . . The inherent right of management to direct . . . shall be preserved. . . . So that enterprise may develop and expand and earn a reasonable profit, management must be free as well from unnecessary governmental interference...
...tool for arbitration will be the 20-man board which is being set up to implement the charter. On it are such topflight businessmen as Henry J. Kaiser, Studebaker's and C.E.D.'s Paul Hoffman, and such labor leaders as P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman, the C.I.O.-U.A.W.'s President R. J. Thomas, and A.F. of L. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany...