Word: precisionism
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The job involved hundreds of more ways, labor running into the hundreds of thousands (850,000 by the end of the year), an estimated 6,000,000 tons of steel a year (14% of the nation's annual steel capacity), buildings, machine tools, engines, multitudinous fittings, parts, precision instruments...
Once Detroit's conversion to war is complete, when the lines are all moving with the precision of timing and economy of motion that Detroit borrowed from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto...
The battalion paraded into the hall in four companies, each headed by the company commander. The colors were marched on by the color guard and presented to the color company. The Unit presented arms with military precision, and the National Anthem was played.
In Germany Yamashita had been excited by the Luftwaffe's function as heavy artillery mounted on hawks' wings. He had acquired licenses to build Stukas and light attack bombers. He had also got the rights for the 800-horsepower B.M.W.-132 radial motor, and for certain precision instruments...
Unlike his night-blooming colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject...