Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist's error to within 2...
Now, when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut...
Precision Bombing. For Army airmen, biggest thing of the year was the final, definite proof of its bombing doctrines. Disregarding the skepticism of British airmen, Major General Ira Eaker of the Eighth Air Force (TIME, Aug. 30) had finally shown that his Fortresses and Liberators could consistently hit pinpoint targets...
One reasonably sure thing was that college football this fall would be worth watching. Many of the name coaches (Harvard's Dick Harlow, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, Fordham's Sleepy Jim Crowley, Iowa's Hunk Anderson) had gone into the services. The old hands still on...
After inspection has been completed. Naval and Marine officer units using rifles will give an exhibition drill demonstrating the efficiency and precision in which officers have been instructed prior to entering the Radar School.