Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean government allotted land to a group of refugees who had slipped over the border from Communist North Korea. French's money bought a farm tool set for each family-sickles, hoes, shovels, picks, pitchforks. Then came fertilizer and seed, and a pair of bullocks. French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham...
...spooner would simply slip the handle of a tablespoon into the coin-return opening, wedge open the little trap door, insert his coin in the slot, and pull the lever. Down through the trap door would fall the take. One imaginative cheater was caught using a fine homemade machine tool with detachable heads, one each for nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar slots...
...deftness of the dip, the skill of the safecracker. The professional cheater will buy a machine ($400 and up), take it home to his workshop for devoted scientific study. Disassembling it, he will examine each reel, spring and screw. How best to make his entry? What tool will do the job? What part of the mechanism should be jimmied with what tool? Then comes careful experimentation until at last he discovers the machine's weak spot: the locked door, or a tiny opening for a wire, or a vulnerable glass plate. After patient hours of practice, the thief collects...
...East Germany, in addition to being Russia's No. 1 trading partner, serves as a substantial tool of Communist penetration in non-Communist parts of the world, where German technical performance is respected. Beyond the 77% of East German trade that goes to Russia and European satellites, 11% now goes to the Middle East, most of the rest to the Far East. East Germany is now Europe's fifth biggest industrial nation...
...should stop thinking of mutual-assistance funds as stopgap measures, should put the mutual-security program on a permanent basis-it "is and will continue to be an essential tool" of foreign policy. "In our fascination with our own mistakes, and the constant use of foreign aid as a whipping boy, we may be gradually choking this vital feature of our national-security policy to death...