Word: precisionism
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In 1938, the U.S. stood seventh among the world's nations in air power. Arnold built the U.S. Army Air Forces into the world's mightiest air force of 72,000 planes and 2,300,000 men, the gigantic weapon that proved decisive in Europe and that devastated...
Ham-Handed. Boston-born Bill Halligan, now 50, was so fast on his feet that when depression ruined his business as a radio-parts salesman in Chicago, he tried his hand at manufacturing high-quality, precision-tuned radio receivers-with no capital except credit from a few business friends. A...
But fact-minded Walter Gifford never placed any reliance on fool's luck. He probed into Western Electric's rule-of-thumb business methods, impressed his bosses by outlining new accounting and manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted...
The physicists of those days believed that the universe was built foursquare on Newton's Laws of Motion. Their laboratories were stiff with reassuring certainties. Matter was matter, they stated dogmatically. It could, of course, be used in combustion to release energy, but matter itself could not be turned...
At the time this was frivolity, almost like saying that a railroad train moves in one-foot jumps. But as soon as Planck made his daring assumption, his equations came to heel, describing the emission of radiant energy with elegant precision.