Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that year Acheson, looking for an artificial abrasive, found on the tip of a carbon electrode a few bright specks of an unknown substance. This, he discovered, was hard enough to cut glass and, when applied with oil to a wheel, would cut the face of a diamond tool. Acheson called the stuff "carborundum," because he thought it was composed of corundum and carbon before it was analyzed as silicon carbide. The first crude furnace produced a quarter-pound of carborundum a day. which was sold to jewelers for $880 per Ib. Frank Tone, a good businessman as well...
...college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others, had never been her lover. To Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston got into...
...sane person ever thought that $50,000,000 could solve the problems of five to six million unemployed youths. Ten dollars a head, on the other hand, is high enough a price to pay for the huge Youth vote in 1936. But for this, it seems, a better tool than sincere Mr. Williams would have been a Farley, a Curley, or a Tague...
Howard has always been a tiny self-sufficient world, in many ways as provincial as in the days of the Red Coats and Tea Parties. While physical limitations will always prevent it from being a large world, provincialism can be avoided. President Conant has discovered the first tool, the prize fellowships, and a few figures will disclose their effects on the geographical enrollment...
Last week in the fifth round of its long and litigious effort to tag Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly, Baush Machine Tool Co. received a sharp and sudden jolt. Most aluminum fabricators can use scrap but the chemistry of the Baush product requires pure ingot aluminum, which the company has to buy abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked...