Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition. War production slumped, in some cases 50%, as workers floundered about without supervision. While the National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council for War Production (which includes all auto-makers), warning in large newspaper ads that recognition of the foremen's union would mean letting labor leaders "take...
Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B Flat Major (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Victor; 8 sides). Chausson's symphony, written in 1890 before the composer's death (at 44) in a bicycle accident, combines somewhat Wagnerian romantic fervor with fine Parisian workmanship. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
Deep River. Harry Burleigh has composed or arranged (from folk music) some 50 spirituals, of which the most famous is his arrangement of Deep River. They have a deceptive artlessness which conceals the most careful workmanship. Burleigh is one of the most learned and technically able Negro composers in history...
From the Treasury Islands attack recently came a legend of Seabee workmanship: a lone bulldozer man had wiped out a Jap gun emplacement. Last week came the details...
Amateur telescope-making is a cult with some 20,000 devoted addicts. With homemade equipment, they work at a hobby that requires a very high degree of workmanship-grinding telescope mirrors which must be accurate to two-millionths of an inch (TIME, Aug. to, 1942). The man who taught most of them the technique is a onetime Arctic explorer (who sailed with Peary) named Russell W. Porter. His amateur grinding has made him so expert that he is now a consultant on the polishing of Caltech's famed 200-in. Mt. Wilson telescope. Since 1926 Porter and an enthusiastic...