Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaos that has been the Stadium ticket situation since last Friday morning shines a solitary, startling fact: the Harvard Athletic Association and its director, William J. Bingham'16, are not to blame. This week's protesting furor is at heart resentment of a rule that has been part of the allotment system since before the season started, a rule which rolled along unscathed by public attack until enforcement of it began...
...Blame for Steelmen? That was no overstatement. Production in August was only 6,000 cars, and in September, 7,597. Hardly anyone expected that the figure would go any higher for the last three months of this year. As the railroads were sending 6,500 cars a month to the junk yards, the U.S. was barely making more cars than it lost. Though freight traffic is up 80% over 1940, U.S. railroads now have about the same number of freight cars (2,000,000-odd) as they had then. Everybody concerned pointed the blame at the other fellow...
...Blame for Railroads? The car builders replied that the steel did not come in an even flow, that this had caused unbalance in the supply of parts, etc. But the railroad companies' own car-building shops, supposedly working under the same conditions, had slightly exceeded their quotas. Scheduled to build 15% of the new cars, they had actually built 27% of all cars in August...
...blame for the flop of the program, Senator Clyde Martin Reed, chairman of the Senate's transportation subcommittee, called car builders and railmen to Washington this week. But an investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
...social scientists are not entirely to blame for the gap between these two broad areas of knowledge, for their brethren have had the early advantage of precise mensuration not to mention far more liberal public endowment. While the lab technician can talk in milligrams and light years, the economist still grapples with unmeasurable concepts like "marginal utility...