Word: tools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other broad front, the New Deal by its shortsighted labor policy has completely undermined whatever faith American business might have had in government as a fair arbiter of industrial disputes. The Administration's failure to put a quietus on sit-down strikes, the vicious new tool of John L. Lewis, and Mr. Roosevelt's tacit and at times open support of labor in all its disputes with capital, and finally the farcical "hearing" of the National Labor Relations Board, which has earned the name of being a C. I. O. affiliate, have all added to the spirit of unrest which...
...Bible was not written as a political tool, nor as a history or a grammar for those yet unborn, even as we ourselves, to puzzle over. Nay, it was a monument erected out of the sincerity of men's hearts to one of the greatest institutions mankind has ever known. I should be studied as such, with realizations of that sincerity and with appreciation of those timeless truths...
...about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have long fostered anti-Japanism as a tool for political purposes . . . and they have, through collusion with the communists, openly and energetically prepared for war with Japan...
...Orient, rose in price. So did tungsten. Some 60% of this rare, whitish-grey metal comes from China. Technically known as wolfram, tungsten has a higher melting point than any other known metal (6,000° F.), is used in electric lamp filaments, radio tubes and high-speed tool steel...
...Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters of U. S. aircraft and aeronautical products). Last week Sperry Corp. issued its statement for the first half of 1937-net profits from operations $1,186,000, up almost100% from the same period last year...