Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland last week the National Machine Tool Builders Association reported that machine tool orders, good index of industrial activity, in July had jumped to 119.8% of the 1926 average, up 31% from June...
...steel industry stepped up operations from a year's low of 32% of capacity to nearly 40%. Machine tool buying for June was the best in five years, better than the 15 year average, and increasing contra-seasonally. The index of power production was abreast of October 1929. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales advanced from 76 in May to 80 in June, and last week's retailing reports revealed a rising clamor for goods. F. W. Dodge reported home construction, key to the building industry, amounting to $49,000,000 in June...
...staff of technicians, he has produced a machine to make a half-tone engraving in four minutes instead of the customary hour. Instead of the usual acid bath, the Howey machine employs a photoelectric eye which scans the photograph. The impulses from the electric eye actuate a cutting tool which etches the lights & shades of the picture into a revolving half-cylinder of metal...
...Business Manager, the one who is taking initial pre-nuptial steps, hopes and prays that the Playgoer is going to be satisfied each week with the University pictures. I know too that the National Student League will be only too delighted to here this that the CRIMSON is a tool of capital, controlled by its advertisers...
...been purchased for nearly two years because installation required an NRA permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that wages & hours are purely a matter of private negotiation between employer and employe. Yet employes in machine tool plants would gain by longer hours because a shortage of skilled labor makes a cut in hourly...