Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman Charles E. Wilson made his first visit last week to the vast, pin-neat Willow Run bomber plant. After inspecting the mile-long assembly line, looking over production schedules, talking to production bosses, he gave out a confident statement. Said he: "The Willow Run plant is on the beam. . . . Willow Run will be in full production, turning out 500 planes a month, by the time the next snow flies...
...large, well. It has made mistakes. Some of its data have been gathered too quickly, then reduced to generalities that glittered without illuminating. Its members, including Chairman Harry S. Truman, have sometimes failed to look before they leaped to conclusions. But it has never strayed too far off the beam, nor stayed there too long...
...World War I. Some of the long-range types can travel 14,520 miles on a single load of fuel. Refueled and reprovisioned by undersea tenders ("milk cows"), they can remain at sea for months at a time. Monstrous metal whales, 220 ft. long with a 20-ft. beam, they carry in their bellies a dozen torpedoes, a crew of 45. When submerged they displace 882 tons (about half the displacement of a typical destroyer...
...ship was gone in a moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor's heart and streaked for home, while her crew made to one another...
...blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons, screws. The machine is set to indicate a certain weight, signals dit-dah when the needle is under the mark, dah-dit when it is over, buzzzzzzz when it is "on the beam." >Trico Products Corp. of Buffalo has developed a Braille-type micrometer for checking precision instruments, by touch, to one-ten-thousandth of an inch...