Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company's assembly line alone threw America's Industrial Revolution into overdrive. Instead of having workers put together the entire car, Ford's cronies, who were great tool- and diemakers from Scotland, organized teams that added parts to each Model T as it moved down a line. By the time Ford's sprawling Highland Park plant was humming along in 1914, the world's first automatic conveyor belt could churn out a car every 93 minutes...
Wall Street's favorite boss today is the power tool who can shred humanity like an old memo to "create value." GE's Jack Welch, soon after becoming CEO, earned the label "Neutron Jack" for closing plants and laying off workers. He's a prince compared to "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap. A West Point graduate and former paratrooper, Dunlap struck like Sherman and crowed about it. At Lily Tulip he fired 50% of the corporate office; at Crown-Zellerbach, 20% of the work force; at Scott Paper, 11,000 employees. After firing 6,000 at Sunbeam, Chainsaw himself got axed...
...during this period that America's shareholders and entrepreneurs fast expanded, and few knew better how to benefit from that growth than bouncy Malcolm Forbes, the ultimate Capitalist Tool. His Scottish-immigrant father, Bertie C. Forbes, a popular Hearst business columnist, had launched the fortnightly Forbes in 1917 and profited from inspirational profiles of company leaders. The very first editorial in this very first U.S. business magazine began, "Business was originated to produce happiness, not to pile up millions...
...family picnic in 1959, Ermal Cleon Fraze found himself with a can of beer and no can, opener-one of life's major annoyances at the time. The solution came to him "just like that" one sleepless night. In 1963, Fraze, the founder of Dayton Reliable Tool Co., obtained the patent for a removable pull-tab opener for the tops of cans. Continental Can Co. created a nonremovable tab 16 years later...
...suggestion of a story, the possibility of what may have or may still happen. This is apparent in a series of paintings he did of people sitting by windows. The scenes are clearer depictions of psychological states than of active ones. His use of narrative is usually a metaphorical tool rather than an indication of literal truth...