Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ivan Matveef arrived in the U. S. early this year from Russia to buy tool machinery for U. S. S. R. While on temporary credentials he became a vice president of Amtorg Trading Corp., thus violating immigration regulations against an alien transferring his activities while in the country. Secretary of Labor Doak, no friend of Reds, moved swiftly and vigorously to deport him. U. S. firms selling him tool machinery protested loudly to the White House. Last week it developed that President Hoover, anxious to retain Soviet trade, had interceded with an order to Secretary Doak to adopt a more...
Suit. Aluminum Co. of America faced a $9,000,000 damage suit last week, filed by its customer Baush Machine Tool Co. of Springfield, Mass. Loudest complaint was that Aluminum Co. gave Baush's competitors price concessions...
This type of thing becomes even more serious as students progress into the so-called higher mathematics which is the fundamental tool through which an engineering manurance is wrought. The same abstract treatment with enormously increasing demand upon memory rather than a procedure which would develop a true physical concept of the matters handled is continued and, indeed, the algebraic complication, the rapidity with which the subject is presented and the enormous amount of matter covered make it virtually impossible for men without excellent memories to pass their mathematics examination...
...toys of modern warfare, we heard a freshman say, "Well, it's the Air Service for mine in the next war." We wondered how many men craning their necks from other vantage points on the campus were saying the same thing. There is something unexorably alluring about an effective tool for war, whether it be a sword, a pistol, or a submarine. And once you've got the weapons, there is a well nigh uncontrollable desire to use them, as the world of 1914 bears witness...
...into eastern Texas last winter (TIME, Feb.2), caused horror and tragedy there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then nine, were finally...