Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...titled hotel expert, Sir Douglas Hacking, who is also a potent behind-scenes figure in the Conservative Party. Beveridge Plan supporters felt that the Tories were simply voicing their traditional conservatism. Said Sir Stafford Cripps's leftist Tribune: "The British people will have only themselves to blame if they ignore the fact that the old ruling class are as reactionary as ever...
...power's failure to be ready for the test, airmen can blame themselves as much as the officers they accuse of having old-fashioned views. Even Göring, with the resources of his country behind him, overestimated the potency of his new weapon and therefore underestimated the needs of his air armada. In the U.S., where economy, not battle, was the goal, the U.S. Air Corps as late as 1937 asked for only 108 of the new Flying Fortresses (and got 19).* Even Britain, with an independent air force, had too few aircraft when war came. Only...
...plenty of the blame rests squarely on U.S. meat buyers. With more free cash than ever before and a shortage-sharpened yen for meat, U.S. citizens pay without complaint far over ceiling prices. Los Angeles aircraft workers pay $1.95 a Ib. for steak, then display their prize like a Prohibition college boy showing off his flask; Manhattan housewives happily fork over 80? a Ib. for beef liver...
...overtime; 2) a national wage policy which will guarantee to all war plant employes who work less than 40 hours per week through no fault of their own the equivalent of 40-hr.-per-week pay-the cost to be borne by the Government when material shortages are to blame, by the management when it is to blame; 3) release to other plants of all employes who cannot get full employment; 4) stabilization of wage rates for the same kind of work...
...knew it would happen. After all you can't blame a dictator like Roosevelt for getting a bit hot under the collar when a paper like TIME picked Joseph Stalin as the most outstanding personality of 1942. So Roosevelt ordered his troops to arrest 53 [American] newspaper and magazine editors. . . . Shades of the Gestapo. Fifty-three editors in one swoosh...