Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side (although a February FORTUNE poll showed only 4.4% of citizens against Lend-Lease to Russia) were the old suspicions, the old fear (now a tool of Axis propaganda) that a victorious Russia would be as bad as or worse than a Fascist Europe...
...skilled factory hand, Detroit was the biggest boom town of all. Tool & diemakers earned $125 to $175 a week; new girls at Briggs Body got 85? an hour. Even girl stenographers at Willow Run got $67.50 a week...
...Vichy Government has been set up as a tool to deceive the people as to how deep in slavery they really are--it neither can nor wants to resist Germany. Even unoccupied France is now under the control of Hitler, and all the people are completely oppressed...
...newly published History and Evolution of Surgical Instruments by Dr. C. J. S. Thompson (Schumann's; $8.50). Among many practical saws, knives and pincers illustrated therein, none is more interesting in a mechanical way than the 17th-Century triploides. This was not part of a torturer's tool kit but, as the Latin inscription conveys, a surgeon's device for raising a depressed fracture of the skull...
...Many a citizen had the wrong idea about the 40-hour-week law. As Mr. Roosevelt took pains to point out, that law did not limit hours of work; WPB figures on hours worked in seven key war industries showed machine-tool workers busy 55 hours a week; engine & turbine, 51.1; aircraft, 48.7; shipbuilding, 48.2; machinery, 47.1; aluminum, 45.9; iron & steel, 41.3. Behind a lot of senseless clamor, the critics of labor had one essential point: labor is getting time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours a week and often double time on Sundays and holidays even...