Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Confusion or oversight?
Month of Stalling. The best - and bitterest - chapter in Lane's book, however, is his detailed reconstruction of the tragic 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow...
Governor Tom Dewey, who prides himself on an efficient administration, submitted his new budget for 1948-49. It was the highest in New York history. Inflation, which he blamed on the "serious confusion in national finances," had driven all costs upward. The budget called for appropriations totaling a whopping $799...
Confusion, Ltd. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), a holding company, and its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, made it easier to tell them apart. The operating company changed its name to Esso Standard Oil Co.
The book was originally scheduled for distribution in May, but the dead-line crept by as belated copy failed to appear Confusion as to the status of veterans in the class also delayed production.