Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
...bishops, ministers and laymen founded 43 years ago "to promote social action in the spirit of Jesus." Many a distressed Methodist has come to think that its real aim is to promote Karl Marx. The Un-American Activities Committee has used a short, ugly name for the federation: tool of the Communist Party. Last week, under the severest accumulated criticism in federation history, 56 of the 4,000 members turned up for the annual meeting in Evanston, Ill. Main question: Should they save, or sack, the Rev. Jack R. McMichael, 34, their executive secretary since...
Wilson's deputies had "solved" that shortage with a lot of paper directives, e.g., super-priorities entitling machine-tool makers to 140% of their pre-Korea steel supplies...
...complained last week that they still weren't getting the steel. Reason: the warehouses which have always supplied their steel are only being allotted 80% of their base-period supplies. "What they're actually getting," said Cleveland's Tell Berna, general manager of the National Machine Tool Builders Association, "is about 40%." Last week the Government's new "solution" was a super-super-priority, which gives machine toolmakers first claim on any machine tools they may need to expand. But that, as Berna pointed out, will not supply steel. And this week DPA recognized...
...second and more controversial stand of the "Yale Approach" is the newer and less-accepted policy science theory propounded by professors Myres McDougal and Harold Lasswell of Yale. These men view law as a pragmatic tool which can be used to shape policy for the public good. They feel that the student, as a potential policy maker--lawyer, judge public administrator--should be trained to think in these terms. Lasswell and McDougal also believe that other areas of knowledge--semantics, psychology, sociology for instances--should be brought to bear...