Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freshman Democratic Congressman Randall S. Harmon, 55, who has been collecting $100 a month from the Government for renting out his own front porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis...
...long-abandoned White House clay tennis court, which will be maintained by surplus funds out of the White House mess. One restriction, laid down by Mamie Eisenhower: Players wearing shorts may not parade across the public lawn from the West Wing to the court, instead must use the nearby tool shed for a dressing room...
...holding company called Internacional de Màquinas e Abrasivos. He stepped off with appropriate fanfare: a caviar and steak luncheon and a trip to the humming factories in chauffeured Cadillacs for Rio's leading businessmen. Belle envisioned expansion into a sprawling complex of steel, paper and machine-tool plants...
Whistle at Work. Sheffield Corp., subsidiary of Bendix Aviation Corp., has just unveiled a tool for machining brittle material that combines eight ultrasonic machines into one unit. Gulton Industries of Metuchen, N.J. will bring out a new line of cleaners, standardize the manufacture of its drills and welders to meet demands of the expanding market. Acoustica Associates, Mineola, L.I., last week demonstrated a new "ultrasonic dipstick" that continuously gauges the levels of virtually any liquid...
...president of American Machine & Foundry, moved to Penn-Texas as vice president and boss of all its subsidiaries, including Fairbanks, Morse and Toolmaker Pratt & Whitney. Colorado-born Bob Kerr graduated from U.C.L.A. ('27), spent his early years as a reporter on the Los Angeles Examiner, went into the tool industry in 1938, became president of Toledo's Bingham-Herbrand Corp. before moving to American Machine & Foundry. Kerr and President Alfons Landa hope to disassociate Penn-Texas from the poor publicity brought on by the fight to oust Former Chairman Leopold Silberstein by changing its name to Fairbanks Whitney...