Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Intention. One evening Cook told the policemen who brought his food: "We're getting out of here. We're going to leave in that blue police car down there. We'll take off like a P-38." The policemen chuckled. The third-floor cells had tool-proof bars, and six steel doors barred the only possible route of escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police...
...razor is the best tool to use for stealing paintings. It is fast, noiseless, and may also be used as a weapon if necessary. Swiftly, silently, one December evening, an adept Buenos Aires thief went to work in the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts. He chose a small (20 by 33 in.), valuable ($40,000) painting, Berge de Lavacourt by French Impressionism's founder, Claude Monet. There was only one guard on duty in the gallery, and he was twice called to the telephone that evening...
Typical example: when World War II began, there were approximately 900,000 machine tools in the U.S. Now the Federal Government alone owns between 500,000 and 600,000 tools-"over 25 years normal prewar production of the machine-tool industry." The Federal Government has not the merchandising organization to sell these tools piecemeal. Yet if it dumps them on the market it might 1) make fortunes for speculators; 2) swamp the machine-tool industry...
Last week Clayton revealed that the Administration has a new plan: to let the companies themselves dispose of cutting tool surpluses, i.e., make them federal sales agents and pay them a commission on sales. (In a similar test plan, tried with aircraft parts, the commission was 30%.) The plan will be stretched to cover radio equipment, may be broadened again if it pans out. Chief argument in favor of it: disposal would be in the hands of those who knew the market best, could feed in surpluses without disrupting it. Biggest objection: disposable surpluses might be held off the market...
With the issuance of the long-awaited Year Books one of the most novel and worthy ideas other than the concensus that Berna Tool oughta bagga head of the past six months has been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group...