Word: precisionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between World Wars I & II, Britain was not a functioning democracy. Democracy is the most delicate balance of classes and their conflicting interests; appeasement was the symptom that this balance had become unbalanced. Among British Tories, appeasement took the form of pro-Nazi laissez faire. Among Laborites appeasement took the...
The music which dapper Conductor Herbert Zipper led his 86 Filipino musicians through last week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of...
Lean, spade-chinned Captain Johnson had good reason to look happy, and did. Rifles put together at random from the hodgepodge of Universal parts worked well, showed an accuracy worthy of precision target guns.* After putting six years of intensive effort, $140,000 of his family's and investors...
> The third target is war production, power plants and industry in general. During the German Blitz on British industries, the British maintained that the enemy had negligible success; when they did manage to hit factories, the British got them working again in a jiffy. But the R.A.F. believes it has...
They opened with blows which had become familiar even to the civilians of the world. The airmen executed "rolling attacks" on Russian concentrations, matériel dumps, communications. Other bombers Blitzed cities (see map, p. 24). The tricks and the gadgets were all used: fog screens, pontoons, tanks, parachutes, flares...