Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reality, in itself, should be merely a tool of drama, just as the playwright, if he is an artist, must also be a good technician. The technician like Mr. Inge, who use his talent to entertain, shock, or emotionally mangle his audience, leaving it nothing more than a momentary dramatic experience, is indulging in literary exercise--little more. Mr. Inge clearly has the tools; now, he needs a new idea...
...week. Howard Hughes, who sold control of the studio only two months ago for $7,093,940 to a group headed by Chicago Promoter Ralph Stolkin, moved back into control without putting up any cash. Noah Dietrich, Hughes's right-hand man and executive vice president of Hughes Tool Co., is expected to become RKO president. With Dietrich and two other satellites on the five-man board, Hughes has complete control, although the Stolkin group still holds the majority (29%) stock interest...
...days on a rock pile, while Christmas stockings will be filled only by feet, and chimneys will have to be swept annually by chimney-sweeps. The essentials of guilt are there: Claus' advocacy of redistribution of wealth is notorious, and his proven stupidity simply stamps him as a willing tool of subversion. The Santa Claus legend may yet come to an end, not in disbelief, but in disgrace. Perhaps for kindly, well-meaning legends in these troubled times, non-existence is the best way out after...
...Reuther went to work as an apprentice tool & diemaker in Wheeling, W. Va., his home town. Fired by the Wheeling Steel Corp. when he tried to organize a protest against Sunday work, he went to Detroit, where he rose to the skilled and highly paid job of foreman in a Ford tool & die room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky has a more ambitious scheme: an interplanetary reclamation project. Using his new tool, nuclear energy, man could improve the circumstances of underprivileged planets, change their atmosphere or even relocate them in more favorable orbits...