Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Provost Buck believes that the Corporation would consider constructing a theatre building if a "full endowment" were offered for a project which would be a "teaching tool and not merely an element of applied education...
Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...lightweight, .30-cal. T25 rifle is a "new tool" which certainly merits the Army's pride [TIME, Feb. 26]. I trust the Army is saving a few buttons to burst when it finds the supermen to fire the T25 at 750 rounds a minute using a 20-round clip...
When Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy called Columnist Drew Pearson a Communist tool (TIME, Jan. 8), he thought he was safe enough. As usual, he made his attack from the libelproof U.S. Senate floor. But last week litigious Columnist Pearson thought he had found a way around McCarthy's immunity, slipped a libel suit against...
Walter E. Schott, 50, is a Cincinnati businessman who likes to collect companies. Fortnight ago he called reporters and announced: "We've just bought the Bunell Machine & Tool Co. of Cleveland for $1,750,000." Next day Schott called reporters again. This time he had paid $1,000,000 for the Novo Engine Co. of Lansing, Mich. This week, Schott's speculative eye was already on a new prospect. By such hustling and sharp buying, Schott has put together a family holding company with enterprises worth an estimated $20 million and controlling some 26 companies spread over...