Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...tackle new problems. At the N. A. Woodworth Co. he so simplified his piecework job that in four hours he turned out double the work of the eight-hour men and earned $600 a month. With too much time on his hands, he quit to start his own tool shop in a building he constructed. In the first several months, he did exactly $18 worth of business. He was forced to move his bride out of their comfortable home into a shack until the tide turned...
...must admit it is necessary to have a spring blizzard before it is possible to have a spring thaw, and both are an indication of what a young man's fancy turns to in such times. For proof we point the guilty finger toward Jack Ashley, of machine tool fame, who this week cund a recipient finger for his stories. And if you're still not convinced, please note the potential international complications in store for Dewey Miller in his affair with the Countess from Austria. Be careful she's not pulling a Don Carlos on, you, D. M., these...
Jokesmith's Art. In the training classes, mines and traps are mixed with a practical joker's devilish wit. Students quickly learn to be suspicious as the giant firecrackers explode when a truck is started, or a tool lifted. Students cannot be too suspicious for their own future good...
...methods were parented by a four-year-old Boston research firm headed by a lanky, sharp-chinned, young M.I.T. graduate, Richard Morse. His researchers call themselves "specialists in nothing." They were not the first to work in their rarefied field, for high-vacuum apparatus is an old tool in the laboratory and in small-scale manufacturing. But Morse's National Research Corp. developed machinery which for the first time makes it possible to use a high vacuum in large-scale mass production...