Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> The great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken.
The confusion in Washington is equalled only by the maze of conflicting and overlapping programs on the college plane. Though deferment through enlistment in one of the Reserve Corps was set up originally to allow men to complete their education as quickly as possible, Army-Navy competition for manpower has...
Yet the confusion and lack of direction continue. College men still query, "What should I do?" Director Hershey states publicly that he will be forced to draft any man applying for the ERC who has not yet been accepted, and the pretentious War Manpower Commission under Paul McNutt stands idly...
This time, the chief responsibility for confusion was clear: the fault lay with the U.S. press, about whose handling of the week's rubber news the kindest comment would be that the news itself came too fast for predeadline digestion. Even the sober New York Times headlined a sober...
The result was the final absurdity of confusion: nobody in Washington could tabulate sense-making essential needs for even 85,000,000 ingot tons, but still practically no essential needs were being wholly filled. Sample confusion: