Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Technically, the Eighth had completed its first year of operation from Britain:* on July 4, 1942, U.S. airmen in six medium bombers attacked a German airdrome in The Netherlands. On the strength of this fact, correspondents added up a year's operations: 265 Fortresses and Liberators, twelve medium bombers...
The precision bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force paid their first visit to the Ruhr. They found and destroyed the carefully camouflaged plant at Hüls where the Germans manufactured a fifth of their synthetic rubber. On other days they flew into northeastern Germany and into Occupied France...
> The Mikado's factories have fallen far behind in the battle of production. They lack precision tools, raw materials, labor-and Jap labor is not getting enough food.
The National Jewish Hospital in Denver teaches blueprint reading, drafting, precision instrument work and other non-strenuous industrial jobs to arrested tuberculosis cases.
The U.S. tonnage dropped on Germany is still less than one-tenth of the R.A.F. tonnage. But the American contribution will surely increase as more and bigger bombers arrive in Britain. Last week the Americans staged their biggest offensive yet against St. Nazaire, Rennes and La Pallice. The number of...