Word: precisionism
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On page 26 you will find excerpts from White's story of what he saw from the lead bomber as it dropped its fragmentations from almost suicide level on the Jap bombers massed along the runway just below. If the raid had failed of complete surprise, half the American...
Precision Instrument. Donald Douglas thinks this way partly because he is a hardheaded manufacturer, with no room in his head for nonsense-or for dreams-but mainly because he is an engineer, with a passion for airplanes as things embodying engineering designs, and a passion for precision. Dreams may be...
Douglas is a precision instrument himself, a man of almost fantastically unvarying habit, and of a simple efficiency that is metronomic in its ticktock exactitude.
Henry Lamar can't see himself as a Varsity football coach. "I'm still an assistant," he says, "filling in for the loss. Dick Harlow, until he comes house." And then the softspoken, well-liked "assistant" goes on about his business of "assisting" by whipping together a bunch of green...
"Christine" is making good. This week she will christen two more tugboats at the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, N.Y. Conceived to simplify wartime launchings. "Christine" is a new device (a bottle-holding arm on a pivot) that showers the champagne with precision, has not yet (in eight performances) jinxed...