Word: precisionism
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For six years pilgrims have gone to the No.1 U. S. summer music shrine, the Berkshire Symphonic Festival, to admire the precision of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the benevolent tyranny of its greying conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. This year, besides the festival, Tanglewood houses a new project also dear to...
Probable reason was given by Ace Reporter George Dixon of the New York Daily News. Wrote Satirist Dixon: "Phantom-like men in white have been responding by day and night to mysterious signaling from a secluded Westchester mansion-now disclosed as the secret quarters of Dr. Gerhardt Alois Westrick. . . . Invariably...
Nazi propaganda overseas is organized with characteristic German precision. In the chosen spot, first a paper or magazine is printed in German to pump local Germans full of Nazi propaganda. Next, schools are started where small tots ab sorb a Nazified version of the three Rs. It is a systematic...
Last week Civilian Aides from 44 States, nine corps areas were called to Washington to be educated by Secretary of War Stimson. In Army headquarters in the rambling wartime Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue, they also met and listened to the Army's No. 1 soldier...
One reason why U. S. aircraft cannot be mass-produced is that airplanes and their engines are still largely hand-built, precision jobs. Last week an airplane designed for mass production with a minimum of handwork was flown in California. It was Timm Aircraft Corp.'s blue-&-gold plastic...