I though they gave more information but there just seems to be this paragraph:
"Preliminary experiments have been made with this spring arrangement on an electrically driven pendulum without barometric correction,and no change in rate could be detected for a change in total amplitude of about one half inch. Such a change in amplitude caused more than a second a day change in rate before the spring was connected. The
accuracy of measurement was to about 0.01 sec. by comparison with time signals from WWV by means of an oscilloscope."