Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the noisy aisles of U. S. machine-tool plants last week rubber-tired food wagons glided. Whenever it pleased them, overalled machinists, black-lipped and pasty-faced under the flourescent green lights, stopped their work for between-meal snacks of milk, sandwiches, crullers, pie. Yankee toolmakers are brought up through a long apprenticeship to have a religious reverence for millionths of an inch, but food is a necessity, for precision suffers when a worker's stomach begins to twinge...
Prime Minister Chamberlain replied that his eloquent predecessor, whom he lumped among "venerable prophets of agriculture," was unduly alarmed. The Government's program besides bringing 2,000,000 acres back into cultivation, includes urging people to grow their own vegetables, encouraging subsistence farming. A laying hen in every tool shed is an objective...
...order. In many ways it is better kind of neutrality, but its success depends on our learning how to handle the new problems that it will raise, problems for which 1914 can give no precedent or provide no experience. America is like a child with a brand new shiny tool, who has yet to prove his ability...
...unyielding British blockade, nor fear torpedo attacks by a sullen Germany. Of course this meant giving up profitable trade, and here lies the danger, for powerful shipping interests may try to circumvent the law, and a doubtfully neutral Administration can help them do it. Our other new neutrality tool is the Johnson Act, which forbids loans to nations that have defaulted in former war loans, meaning England and France. This is a potent weapon, but again must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and must be guarded jealously against forces both abroad and at home that would like...
...lead-steel alloy (one part of lead to 500 parts of steel) which is just as strong as leadless steel, but can be machined 30% to 50% faster for mass-production parts. The soft, tiny particles of lead in the alloy serve to lubricate the point where the tool cuts; the tool stays sharp longer, the machine runs faster...