Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance of Carquinez Heights! Believe me, if one of the most sensitive artists in America today, I speak of "Bill" Wurster, cannot satisfy the champions of demountables with a bang-up job like the Vallejo project there must be something basically wrong with the theory. I studied the detail drawings and photos of this job very carefully and am at a loss to know how it could be done any better...
Donald Nelson had shaken off his gloom. A fortnight before he had been bogged down in his job's endless, exasperating detail. He had been worried about the bickering inside his War Production Board; for the first time he had seemed afraid that his work would never be done. Now, suddenly, from the accurate daily graphs on his desk, he could see that the production picture was taking powerful form...
...together: it has brought the services together. Army and Navy officers sit in the same room, fight out their problems across their desks. Gone is the oldtime system under which a captain asked his colonel to ask the Secretary of War to ask the Secretary of the Navy to detail a commander to confer with the captain...
...greet him outside the station's high, iron fence. They saw assorted generals in standard khaki and medals, an admiral or two in white and gold, a U.S. Army battalion drawn up as guard of honor. They saw seven white-legginged, strangely brown soldiers in a special detail: Filipinos from Field Marshal MacArthur's Commonwealth Army, wounded in the early days of the fighting and evacuated to Australia by hospital ship. Then the people saw MacArthur...
Last week, on the brush-covered, gully-cut hills of Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string...