Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balding, saturnine man who directed a continuous stream of prejudice-laden questions at the accused. No Communist, Judge Vilmos Old had been an Arrow Cross (Nazi) leader up to 1945, switched his allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal...
AFTER a three-year feast, machine-tool builders are facing slimmer rations. Although civilian contracts are still coming in, a drop in defense business has cut total new orders 10%. With capacity expanded 25%, record output has whittled down backlogs from 23½ to 7-½ months' work...
...film was' the latest of many by which its maker, gangling (6 ft. 4), shy John Nash Ott Jr., 43, has developed a valuable new research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets...
...desperately attempting to block an armistice, Syngman Rhee had just about used up all the arguments he knew. Last week South Korea's stubborn old man used an uglier and more dangerous tool...
...Chinese industry is now state-owned, Chia boasted, but obviously the state is having a hard time finding managers who know their jobs. Chia announced a new set of production goals, but did not compare them with the more grandiose targets proclaimed earlier. This year, said Chia, machine-tool production will increase 4.6% (not 34%'as announced in February), petroleum 29.1% (instead of 42%). Peking had promised earlier to build or enlarge 21 steel mills and 24 machine-tool works in 1953; according to Chia. only four steel mills and ten machine-tool plants will be built or expanded...