Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The two schools fought over grade labeling, over dollars-&-cents ceilings, over how to make OPA orders understandable, over how to work subsidy payments, over making Lou Maxon "general manager" of OPA. Prentiss Brown had not been acting like a strong administrator. Now he told reporters that OPA was not...
Loading for Battlefronts. Convoys leaving the U.S. during the early months after Pearl Harbor were apt to be tangled affairs. Troops boarded transports, then chafed at the wharfside many days. One engineer regiment carried to Australia trucks which had already been driven 30,000 miles. In World War I the...
Supplied by plane and what they found to eat in the jungle, these British raiders operated over 10,000 square miles of Burma at a time, cutting Jap lines of communication, raiding Jap outposts, throwing the enemy into confusion far behind the front lines. Troops used were not specially picked...
Over Europe's battlefield, gunners in U.S. bombers have a new problem of aircraft recognition. On many raids their new fighter escorts are Republic Thunderbolts (P-47s) which have just entered the battle of Europe. And in the swirling confusion of a battle with pursuit planes, the broadnosed, round...
It all boils down to a matter of one's definition of the two words. For years after the appearance of "Jazz," the word was baffling because people applied it indiscriminately to the original Negro improvisations and to the overblown dance arrangements of Paul Whiteman. So, too, with the word...