Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television finally takes a giant step forward, and gives audience-participation tests in important fields of interest. And what is your reaction? You give a mixed, silly, and asinine review [Feb. 4]. I say give Mr. Friendly a hurrah for a good, honest attempt to make television the useful tool it was intended...
...Russians have also agreed to build a $20 million plant to turn out heavy boilers, bridge girders and cranes. Czechoslovakia has promised a $15 million precision-tool factory. On a smaller scale, the U.S. Government last week agreed to provide $245,000 for the planning of a nationwide power grid to integrate the electricity that seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving...
...brought together the shoe industry in his British Shoe Corp., has added to it the Lewis's Investment Trust, a department-store chain, for which he paid almost $180 million. The metals-manufacturing firm, Tube Investments, has bid to take over Charles Churchill, one of the biggest machine-tool makers...
Last year, the CEA turned to planning a cheaper alternative -- converting its present accelerator, with its one stream of electrons, into a tool for high-energy physics...
Last week, however, Simon was the toast of Pittsburgh. Reason: he had moved to head off a takeover by somebody else. For two weeks, Crucible Steel, a specialty company with $300 million annual sales in alloys, stainless, tool and carbon steels, had been one of Wall Street's most active stocks; Crucible's stock fluctuated over a ten-point range. Then the reason came clear. Headed by Chicago Industrialist Morris J. Rubin, who helped engineer a takeover 21 months ago of the U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., a Crucible-minded "Stockholders Committee for Better Management" was buying Crucible...