Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Still strike-shut were the vast Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. yards at Kearny, N.J. (TIME, Aug. 18). Blame for the tie-up was placed squarely on management by the National Defense Mediation Board when Federal rejected the Board's recommendation for a settlement. From the Administration came an ultimatum: accept the Board's finding or else-the Navy would step in, become boss...
Taxes were most obviously to blame-chiefly the excess-profits tax, which feeds on the aircraft industry's low pre-war profits and small capitalization...
...decennial worldwide Lambeth Conference, Britain's episcopate had never before gathered in one conference. But as Malvern showed, the Church of England has lost its smugness. The bishops last week soberly admitted that the church has drifted away from the people, that it is largely to blame for the fact. Said they...
...Gaulle was not to blame for the failure at Dakar; news of his mission leaked out from a dinner in London, tipped the Germans off. But Dakar cost him prestige and French West Africa. In French Indo-China Governor General Georges Catroux took too long to make up his mind. By the time Catroux had decided to join De Gaulle, Vichy had replaced him with Admiral Jean Decoux, who last week handed the colony over to Japan (see p. 27). General Catroux hurried to London, tore three of the five stars from his sleeve and reported to De Gaulle...
...this sorry record, the Treasury's corny sales promotion was in part to blame. But now the corn is being weeded out. Dull posters and literature will be pepped up or ditched. The radio campaign (most successful Treasury promotion so far) is using better talent, shorter commercials. By Sept. 15 the Michigan plan will be working in every State. If it works as well nationally as in Michigan, Washington talk of compulsory savings will prove at least premature...