Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swift, numbing surprise was the assassination of Admiral Jean François Darlan, the onetime French collaborator who had become America's friend, or America's tool, or perhaps America's moral Frankenstein (see p. 24). The nation heard Franklin Roosevelt's angry reaction: ". . . first-degree murder." It listened to good grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull: ". . . an odious and cowardly act." But many Americans did not know whether to be horrified or relieved, and their not knowing was a heavy burden...
...machine-tool industry, which up to 1940 had never produced more than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry...
...Production Board offices, where gloom has often been thick enough to cut with a machine tool, were aglow last week with broad smiles, good digestions, men humming in the halls...
Concerned with souls as well as profits is the Severance Tool Co. (all-purpose tools) of Saginaw, Mich. To get a job, prospective Severance employes must agree to attend one of the 20-minute religious devotion periods held at the start of each of the three daily shifts...
Reasons: 1) Tall, dark-haired Founder-President Rollin M. Severance is an earnest Christian and member of the Gideons (famed hotel Bible providers); 2) both President & Mrs. Severance are convinced that Severance Tool has been guided by God's hand, feel that their 600-odd employes ought to join in praise...