Word: hit-or-miss
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...Boston Tributary Theatre obviously lacks a strong organization, and its productions are good, bad, or indifferent as one member of the company expressed it, "depending on who's around." with such a hit-or-miss system, it's only a gambling theatrical spirit that can carry you to something worthwhile. Performance to follow we "Julius Caesar," "Dr. Faust us," "Macbeth," and "Romeo and Juliet." With the odds as they are, you might be better...
What's Wrong with the Engine. But Britain's motormakers could not deny that, by U.S. lights, they still had much to learn about mass production. Hit-or-miss assembly-line techniques, short production runs and poor standardization of parts (the basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which...
Loran. When air lines cross the oceans, they will be guided by war-born loran (LOng RAnge Navigation), a whole new system of navigation which does not depend on celestial observations or hit-or-miss dead reckoning. The U.S. Coast Guard already operates 57 loran stations on the shores and islands of the Atlantic and Pacific. Each has an effective range of 600 to 800 miles by day, and up to 1,400 miles by night. A worldwide network of 70 stations is in the cards...
...from Democrats, and he well knew that some members of his party would object on the ground that the G.O.P. should not help bail the Truman Administration out of its troubles. But Candidate Stassen, a determined contender for President in 1948, knew that the people were sick of hit-or-miss government, that his proposal would not fall entirely on deaf ears...
With an income guaranteed for at least ten years, the Institute hopes to attract the best brains in the field. Memorial's present research staff will form the Institute's nucleus. Instead of hit-or-miss study like much cancer research in the past, the Institute will devote long-term concentration to the most promising clues - which ones, no one is yet ready...