Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four of the Cleveland's ranking officers made off for the Manhattan investigation when they got ashore to report that lives had been lost because of Captain Robert E. Carey's incompetence and delay. They also petitioned the line to be removed from his command. Sailing back to San Francisco, the line's headquarters, Captain Carey observed: "I took it on the chin here in New York, but they'll get theirs in 'Frisco...
...delay that followed Harold Lloyd's last picture Movie Crazy (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) was partly due to the fact that he could find no suitable story. He bought The Cat's Paw when Author Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make...
...following apology, which TIME omitted, was published in the Sun after a delay of 31 days...
Statistics included in the report showed that out of 3,140 scheduled airmail trips, 1,187 were completed on schedule, bad weather accounting for delay in 446 cases. mechanical trouble in 39, accidents in only...