Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records all the machine motions required for a machining process on a tape that is hooked up to the machine. When the tape is played back, the machine faithfully repeats the original motions down to the last detail. The first such unit will go to the Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co. at Fond du Lac, Wis., where it will be used to turn out self-reinforced skins for jet planes...
...Bantu Education Act will no doubt achieve its purpose as a tool of South African segregation, but only at the expense of education. Ignorance will only further the separation of the native community, leaving it easy prey to the same kind of nationalism erupting in Kenya. To this extent, the Act is largely self-defeating. But in a larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance...
Five Loaves Apiece. To bolster farm income, the Department of Agriculture has been using and will continue to use "every tool at its command," the Secretary said. As a result of its efforts, the Federal Government now owns or has made loans on $5 billion worth of farm products; e.g., it is holding 425 million bushels of wheat-enough to make five loaves of bread for every human being in the world-and has made loans on 764 million bushels of corn. The Government's storage bill for all farm commodities is $465,000 a day. Asked Benson: "What...
...mass production is achieved." Baker estimates the figure for 1954 at about 75,000 sets; some other TV experts say 150,000, but all agree that mass production will not come on the market until 1956 "or later. RCA predicts that it will take at least six months to tool up for its first sets; Admiral, Motorola and Philco will make only a handful in 1954, hardly enough to supply demonstration sets for the thousands of U.S. TV dealers...
...constructs. Some strides are being made in speaking the language from the start--the easiest, fastest, most thorough and most enjoyable way to learn; as the language becomes meaningful and can overcome a student's natural laziness or disinterest. It is still not enough to provide a much-needed tool for successful understanding and handling of America's role in world affairs...