Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's serious support for the bill being voiced in Washington and serious consideration being given on the part of high administration planners," Pettigrew said. He predicted that the measure, if passed, could become "a very powerful tool" for fighting de facto segregation...
Businessmen who do not have their own plane these days are often considered just not with it. The speed and convenience of the 35,000 planes now owned by U.S. business have made the aircraft a major operating tool. Yet most flying executives still face a bothersome trip from office to airport, then from a landing field to their customer's office. To eliminate this time-consuming delay, some air-minded firms have launched a trend that may eventually change the nature of business travel: they are setting up shop in fly-in industrial parks that have an airstrip...
...known to science has failed. As soon as the metals rub themselves clean, molecules begin moving in both directions across the interface, the area of contact between the two metals. The "seizure" that results is as effective as a weld. Even machining is difficult. When a steel cutting tool is used on stainless steel or titanium, it sticks to the piece it is shaping and cuts out rough chunks instead of smooth chips...
Quantity may substitute for uniform quality at present, but the museum is already a well-honed teaching tool. "We need art to look at," says Director Hinkhouse. "A properly arranged quantity of good art works which present history with taste is a start. That is the only way a museum can become a magnet for excellences, a watering hole...
McNamara reformed this situation with a five-year-plan which Enthoven calls "a powerful tool in integrating all points of view." The program approaches whole areas of defense planning as units, so that within one area a military force requirement automatically becomes a budget requirement...