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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Censor Price's own A.P. ran into a concrete censorship problem last week. While other newspapers and wire services vainly besought Navy for confirmation of the torpedoing of a second ship off New York last week, A.P. on its own hook got confirmation from the Coast Guard (now part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Ground Rules | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Delay, Confusion. Despite OPM's failure, the auto industry would be converted somehow. Management, labor, the whole U.S. were determined on that. But no one could say how much time had been lost by last week's indecision and wrangling.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OPM Flops Again | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

If you find an unexploded bomb, always pick it up and shake like hell (maybe the firing pin is stuck). If that doesn't work, heave it in the furnace. (The Fire Department will come and take care of things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: San Francisco's Nerve Center | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Part of the confusion came because Where is the Fleet? was not the right question. Wherever it was, a navy as big as the U.S. Navy had not been suddenly whisked from the face of the seas. The question meant: Where is the attacking power of the U.S.? The answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Fleet? | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Japs? His critics were "two-by-four editors," "swivel-chair scribes." They lied. Criticism of him was only "creating confusion," had some dark and unpatriotic (probably Japanese) purpose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Hen-yard Pagliaccio | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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