Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called a revolutionary turbine oil-well drill developed by Russian engineers. In return it would agree to ship the Russians some of its own rotary rock drill bits, instruct them in their use. But Commerce, State and Defense Department experts decided that Dresser would get nothing but an unproved tool while giving away the U.S. oil industry's latest technical know...
...biggest prize the Russians got, said McClellan, was machine tools, a basic requirement for war as well as peacetime production. Ralph Baldenhofer, who was the Business and Defense Services Administration's machine-tool expert in 1955 and is now executive vice president of the Thompson Grinder Co. of Springfield, Ohio, testified that he protested "strongly" against letting the Russians buy such machines, but was repeatedly overruled. Said Toolman Baldenhofer: "It would be much better to give them the planes, even the guided missiles. These things will come back to us once. But the Soviet bloc will be making...
...LINER to compete with Boeing and Douglas planes will be built by Howard Hughes if he gets CAB permission. Already planning a big Florida aircraft plant (TIME, April 23), Hughes wants his Hughes Tool Co. to add planes to its electronics business, build 25 faster, longer-ranged jets for Trans World Airlines, which he also controls. First step: get CAB to lift a 1944 ruling that T.W.A. may not buy more than $10,000 worth of equipment annually from Hughes Tool...
Debating, therefore, virtuous or not, has its own rewards. Nevertheless, to a public moralizer like T. R., debating can be hypocritical. With its emphasis on sounding convincing despite personal belief, debating is the devil's tool. For, as often as not, the forces of good go down to defeat in college debate, if only because the opposition is better prepared, or more fluent, or manages, through chance, to have the last word...
...professor scoffs, "He's groping for a comprehensive theory of the universe with Newton's Principia as his ideal." A social relations tutor observes, "His followers are as avid as Marxists." And Pravda replies, "He's a tool of capitalistic warmongers." But while the scholarly tempest brews, Professor of Sociology Talcott Parsons answers for himself--"Heavens, let's not go off the deep...