Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meticulously efficient was Ed Musick that his concentration on safety in the minutest flight detail was a legend in U. S. aviation. He would not tie up to a buoy unless it was tested. To many an aviator his amazing good judgment made the Pago Pago accident something of an enigma. It is established that Captain Musick could have landed his heavily loaded ship in Pago Pago harbor. On the other hand, so precarious is fuel dumping as a method of lightening a plane, that it is forbidden by the Bureau of Air Commerce on all U. S. passenger-carrying...
...confirmation of newspaper reports the films provided a double check in almost every detail. They show the Panay, loaded with news correspondents, cameramen, embassy attaches evacuated from burning Nanking, being visited, identified by a Japanese patrol launch before the bombing. They enumerate the Panay's many flags-two flying from masts, two stretched horizontally over deck superstructures for identification from...
...from above, as chief of the photographic section of the U. S. Air Service. In aerial photography clarity is the first and last requisite. When the War was over, Colonel Edward Steichen burned all his paintings, spent one solid year photographing still life to learn just how much detail he could get under different lights...
...CRIMSON, Ball later described in detail his discovery and later search...
...gaudy Evelyn Walsh McLean mansion, where the Project's temporary offices were established. Although administrative work was handled by professionals like Alsberg's assistant, Reed Harris, or his chief editor, Biographer Edward Barrows (Great Commodore), or Architect Roderick Seidenberg, who designed The New Yorker Hotel, the detail work was done by a mazy mass of unemployed newspapermen, poets, graduates of schools of journalism who had never had jobs, authors of unpublished novels, high-school teachers, people who had always wanted to write, a sprinkling of first-rate professional writers who were down on their luck...