Word: precisionism
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The fact: Army airmen are more than ever convinced that daylight, precision bombing is worth while, plan to intensify the day raids with more and bigger bombers. The crews are brushing up on flying in the dark so that they can approach their targets in early dawn or leave them...
"It was a local action," wrote TIME Correspondent Charles Wertenbaker, "but it was accomplished with precision which showed that the British troops were well seasoned by the winter's fighting. Six of us watched the barrage which preceded the infantry attack and a pretty thing it was too. There...
Drill formation were often irksome--but General Quarters Drill will also require physical exertion and military precision. There weren't very many free evening--but we did manage to make a few liberties, and in Boston at least, the beet is cold and the files don't bite.
And there were no redeeming features in the other two selections on the program. Burgin's direction of Haydn's C-minor Symphony lacked the lustre and precision of a Koussevitsky' performance; the first movement of Mahler's Third Symphony was nearly as oppressive as the full six movements would...
One of the best war dramas on the air got its first sponsor last week. The drama is CBS's five-month-old sustainer, The Man Behind the Gun. The sponsor is Elgin National Watch Co., now fully converted to war work (precision instruments) and willing to tell about...