Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Is the Sailor. For its unpreparedness to make weapons the U. S. could blame its witless conviction, bolstered wishfully after every war, that there would never be another. But for its unreadiness to put ships on the sea it had a sounder reason: for the past 80 years the call of its own domestic empire had increasingly drowned out the call of the sea. The U. S., which had once been a nation of seamen, had become a nation of landlubbers. There had been too much to do at home. And as domestic prosperity heightened, its prices...
...mushrooming aircraft industry, failure to supply airplanes to Britain in time to stave off defeat will fall on many manufacturers, who will also share the praise if the job is done well. In the shipbuilding industry, praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission...
...these deaths. The inevitable was happening: as more & more planes and pilots took the air, the average rate (per 1,000 hours flown) of crashes and fatalities was going up. The press noted the increase with alarm, assumed that something was wrong, taxed the Army and Navy with the blame. Last fortnight the Air Corps's veteran Brigadier General Herbert A. Dargue called in a picked group of correspondents, told them to expect more crashes, more deaths. Last week the War Department made his information public...
...improperly, to such an extent, in fact, that many people have a completely wrong idea of what a jam session really is. The popular conception, of course, has come out of Hollywood, the birthplace of so many other cultural miscarriages. Therefore, you too, will know where to lay the blame if you think a jam session is something bordering on a Bacchanalian orgy, complete with Goldwyn girls, Martha Raye and her face, and Artie Shaw tooting on his instrument. That's all very well and good, but it's far from the right idea...
Separated. Tallulah Bankhead, 38, currently touring the South in The Little Foxes; and Actor John Emery, 36; after four years of a marriage that was the first for both. Gloomed Actress Bankhead: "We put the blame on that 'old debbil' career...