Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital improvements. 15% went for automation. Manufacturers of automatic controls last week estimated that they have installed automated equipment in 100.000 U.S. manufacturing plants during the last few years, "yet hardly scratched the surface." After the broadest survey yet on automation's markets, the American Society of Tool Engineers reported that automation will account for 18% of metalworkers' equipment orders this year. In the aircraft industry one-fifth of all money spent for equipment this year will go for pushbutton machines; one-third of the automakers' 1956-57 equipment orders will be invested in automation. Among...
...Cadillac? Lawyer Thomas tried his best to prove that 26-year-old Autherine Lucy, far from being a woman merely in search of an education, is something of a conspirator herself. In an obvious attempt to establish her as a paid tool of the N.A.A.C.P., he asked her why she had come to class in a Cadillac, and who was paying for her attorneys. Judge Grooms sustained objections to most of this questioning, and Thomas moved on to other ground. Witnesses for the university testified that during the riots Autherine's life had been clearly in danger, that there...
...also growing, reached $29.3 billion in December, the highest point since the statistics were first compiled in 1948. At the last official count unfilled orders for all types of machinery stood at $15.6 billion, a gain of better than $2 billion in a year. In December alone machine tool orders came to $157 million, up 50% in two months...
Mindful of his mission, Gruenther lets no group that might influence opinion pass through Paris unnoticed. Whatever the group, he whips off a G-gram demanding information. ("I should like to know more about that Machine Tool Association whom we are briefing on Friday. What are some of their problems?") By the time he has to speak, he knows that the group comprises 29 manufacturers from eight countries, is highly interested in developing and adapting standardized equipment for NATO needs, and that he can warmly commend them on their interest. With such a preface, he swings into his discussion...
...Tool Box. In Los Angeles, police looked for the noisy customer who walked into Jimmy Ostroff's bar, was refused a "screwdriver" (vodka and orange juice), robbed Owner Ostroff of $200 at gun point while he bellowed: "If I can't have a screwdriver, how do you like this...