Word: chaotically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insulting disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Under the innocent title of "Neo-liberal Illusion: That Collectivism is Liberty," it is an insidious attack on the principles of the government thrice chosen by the American electorate. On the surface, it calls for a return to the chaotic free enterprise of the twenties between the lines it is an incipient fascism threatening to destroy those principles for which the war is being fought...
...Bill Jeffers tackled the chaotic Rubber Scandal this week in the hellbent, direct-action way he has run the Union Pacific Railroad...
...what could have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood at its most chaotic. For sheer inconsistency of character, plot, and theme, "Crossroads" will be a tough one to beat...
...unhappily, both in tonnage and use, these metals, though strategic, are all pipsqueaks compared to the basic scarce ones -steel and copper and zinc. There are still many doubters who swear that the "scarcity" of base metals is an illusion caused by wasteful use and chaotic allocation methods (TIME, Aug. 3). But so long as the U.S. war machine must have more of them than WPB can find, it cannot run at capacity...
...most chaotic and haphazard phase of the entire war manpower problem has been the training and procurement of specialists at the college level. While the plans of the armed-forces for training line officers are still uncoordinated, they at least follow the definite outlines of the reserve programs. But not even such simple directives have been worked out for procuring the much needed engineers, physicists, chemists, and men who can speak Russian and Japanese...