Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...
Today there are some 300 miniature-auto racing clubs in the U. S., some 9,000 enthusiasts (90% adult) who proudly call themselves spindizzies. The pioneering Doolings, who have turned their hobby into a livelihood, now tool out 600 little Doolings a month, have 20-odd competitors...
Aristotelian logic (which Bertrand Russell rejects) is many-valued, fills the chasm between true and not true with probabilities. A four-valued logic would permit: true, probably true, possibly true, not true. (The word "and" then acquires 14.348,907 distinct meanings.*) Such logic is not speculative nonsense but a tool urgently needed, for example, by atom-studying physicists. It is also vital in comprehending the relativity-universe prescribed by the theory of emergent evolution...
...tons), but almost every ton of it is specialized for making high-cost, hand-tailored alloy steels. These are not ordered from a catalogue or mass-produced at the mill, but compounded like doctors' prescriptions to minute specifications. This year, capacity operations in such industries as automobile, machine-tool, chemical and electrical-equipment makers, plus the aircraft and arsenal boom, are making a seller's market for high-cost alloy steels. To Allegheny-Ludlum went all the velvet, none of the worry...
Last year, distinguished guests included the presidents of the New England Telephone and Telegraph and the Boston Elevated Railway. This year, pertinent to the problems of shortage of machines for national defense, the program will include the head of a large tool firm...