Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Send in the Clowns. DoALL Company, a Chicago-area machine tool distributor with nationwide offices, hired the Eastern Onion Singing Telegrams company of Bethesda, Md., to bring its message to 74 undecided Congressmen, DoALL's local branches had been hurt by the business slump, and they favor the President's tax plan. Their ditty, sung to the tune of The Yankee Doodle Boy, concluded: "You'll have a job for every man/ So just say 'Aye'/ Don't be a slob/ Someday you might have Reagan's job/ So please vote for Reagan...
After reading the article "Buttering Up the Farmers" [July 6], I am quite convinced that capitalistic economics is a discriminating, nasty tool without any viable source of humanity or emotion. Stockpiling all those dairy products while poor people around the world are starving is clearly inhumane...
Your article "A Shortage of Vital Skills" [July 6] failed to mention one of the chief reasons that nobody goes into tool-and diemaking any more. For the past 20 years, policies of the Federal Government have encouraged everybody to get a higher education whether it was right for the individual or not. Now we have a lot of college graduates who are barely able to spell their own names...
...father has been a tool-and-die worker for more than 40 years. He has always earned better-than-average wages and enjoyed his work. I wonder if people realize that masters of this craft have minds of mathematical geniuses and hands that surgeons would envy...
Defense industry contractors will need 10,000 machinists and tool-and diemakers by 1985 just to make up for attrition and continue the current inadequate level of production, and they are equally desperate for engineers. Subcontractors are abandoning defense production in alarming numbers, partly because the Pentagon has insisted on funding military projects for only one year at a time, making it difficult for executives to raise money and tool up their plants for sustained, profitable production. Some 1,500 of the 6,000 subcontractors participating in one defense program dropped out in a single year. The deficiencies in defense...