Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After this, the Senator wound up and fogged in his big mudball: Pearson was not only a "greedy, degenerate liar" with a "perverted mentality" but was also a tool of Moscow, fiendishly intent on destroying "the very heart of this Republic." Pearson, he said, was not a card-carrying party member, but he got secret orders from the Reds through an associate, David Karr, whom McCarthy identified as a former writer for the Communist Daily Worker. Furthermore, he cried, Columnist Pearson had been assigned the job of ruining General Douglas MacArthur...
...rays and physiotherapy there and kept at it during the two years he attended Harvard. After that, he went into the automobile business with ex-Governor Fuller, spent a year as trainer at Amherst (where he met Jordan), and then took care of injuries at a local machine tool factory during the war. In 1943, the Boston Yankees (later called the New York Bulldogs and now the New York Yankees) hired Fadden and he stayed with the organization until his return to Harvard. In the meantime, he spent one season with the Chicago White Sox and joined...
...Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button on the much-talked-about "phantom orders"-which were supposed to put machine-tool factories to work on $750 million worth of war business almost overnight-Harry Truman's planners had been following the policy of gentling defense orders into the works so as not to disturb civilian production too much (see BUSINESS). Businessmen had asked to be told what...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...many clerks UNIVAC would replace Scares did not say. He was confident that Remington Rand had not created a "Frankenstein [monster] which can turn upon us and wreck the very foundations of our society. History has demonstrated that there is an ultimate good in every new tool . . . The acceptance is gradual as the new tool proves its worth. It has never occurred as a sudden change...