Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measurably closer. Summing up his own views in the current Scientific American, Pease says: "With [such] machines in control, we can conceive of factories which will process, assemble and finish any article of manufacture. It is unlikely that the automatic factory will appear suddenly. Like the machine tool itself, it will just grow by steps, until eventually it is here...
...machine is the latest gadget of the power garden tool business, an industry that has sprung up like crab grass since the war. All over the U.S. last week, men were revving up their power mowers and heading into the wild green yonder with all the enthusiasm of fighter pilots climbing into the sun. Children were cleaning up as much as $75 a week, making the neighborhood rounds with the family machine. Sears, Roebuck reported it was selling one power mower for every two non-powered machines...
...Russians, trailing seven of their satellites behind them, trooped into Toronto last week to sit with 63 other nations in the deliberations of the International Red Cross, which they have been denouncing for months as the tool of the imperialists and the bloodthirsty brokers of Wall Street...
...Elihu Root 3rd, 36-year-old grandson of the onetime Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and a graduate of Hamilton College who is now a free-lance engineer in Springfield, Vt. The patent: an optical device for taking minute and precise measurements for use in the machine-tool industry...
...instigation of another Communist stooge, France's Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Bonnard had set out to prove that the International Red Cross is actually a "tool of the western powers" and of "Swiss warmongers," is therefore unfit to investigate Red germ-warfare charges in Korea. Three weeks ago he was all set to take his "evidence" to the East Berlin World Peace Council when the Swiss Federal Police moved in at the Zurich airfield, grabbed his briefcase, and forwarded the contents to a court of inquiry. A government communique announced that Bonnard's papers contained...