Word: precisionism
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"Big Airplane Man/' The Lindberghs continued their northering flight to the Orient, making the supposedly hazardous stretch from Baker Lake 1,115 mi-to Aklavik, extreme northwest Canada, with a precision that silenced alarmists. Bad weather bound the flyers for three days and two nights at Aklavik, where they...
There was beautiful precision to the first stage of the flight. The Fort Worth climbed out of Seattle's Boeing Field before dawn, kept rendezvous with her trimotored Ford refuel plane over Fairbanks that evening only 30 min. behind time. Throttled down to comparatively slow speeds the planes flew...
Precision is the bureau's prime purpose. Deep within an unshakable vault, where temperature and air pressure is constant, lies the master measuring stick of the U. S., a platinum bar one metre long. Bureau men know that it is one metre long because they measured with an eternal...
Last week's Wrigley cotton plan, which its author worked out with characteristic speed and precision (including publicity by great J. Walter Thompson Co.), works as follows:
Even childbirth is clocked with rigid precision at the Japanese Court, the most meticulous and totally devoid of humor in the world.