Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representative Hamilton Fish's attempt to stem the Administration's interventionist flood with his stubborn dam of isolation was swept away in formal debate by the onslaught of William Y. Elliott, noted Gov. 1 professor, who charged that Fish was a "tool or dupe" of the Nazis...
Talon's machines, which stamp zipper teeth out of metal tape and fasten them in a row on fabric, would be useless for anything else. Its workers (like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping...
...Barring sabotage, Hitler would get most of Russia's electric, hydroelectric and manufacturing plants - 70% of pig iron, steel and rolled steel capacity; 90% of oil refineries; 63% of tractor factories; 85% of machine and machine-tool factories; 90% of chemical, synthetic rubber and tire plants. But Russia's manufacturing plant, like its agricultural resources, is usually hard-pressed to sustain even the longtime poor living standards of Russia...
Spark plug of this achievement was Universal's pudgy, tireless Works Manager William A. Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
...good-will tour, but to live there as ordinary citizens. It was a start toward a U.S. attempt to beat the Germans at the game of making friends with Latin Americans by sharing their life and customs-not with the Nazi object of later using such penetration as a tool for conquest, but with the democratic object of developing a genuine community of interest with U.S. neighbors...