Word: precisionism
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The maker of that Jap-killing torpedo director was no oldtime munitions outfit, no veteran precision manufacturer, no war-wise Naval ordnance plant. It was energetic, ingenious General Mills Inc., which before the war was a peaceful flour miller (Gold Medal, Bisquick, Wheaties). But last week General Mills was running...
Then & there General Mills planked down $1,000,000 for an abandoned two-block plant in Minneapolis, enough precision machinery to fill it and more headaches than the company had in 80 years of flour-milling. Sample: huge, 20-ft. high, 800-part Naval gunsights (parts must be machined to...
The Credit. Results came fast: a sharp cut in gunsight building time, praise from the Navy and millions of dollars in orders for torpedo directors (1,000 parts, superfine machining), gyroscopic contraptions to offset warship roll, other precision instruments. Meanwhile General Mills put at least one super-secret device into...
Joseph Edward Otis Jr. is president of Indiana's Dodge Manufacturing Corp., makers of thousands of small precision parts for ships and planes. Last week, while many another businessman fretted over the strange, uncomfortable new world in which he found himself, smooth-thinking Otis sat down and wrote these...
To save the high-quality steel normally used for such precision instruments, and to speed inspection, some of these gauges are now being rough molded of glass by Corning Glass Works and A. H. Heisey & Co., and finished by instrument makers. Glass gauges do not rust, need not be greased...