Word: error
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio broadcasts. From the cheers at the name of Henry A. Wallace, from the puzzled looks when Senator Truman was mentioned, and from the groans over various other candidates, it would appear that at least one group of servicemen feels that the Democratic Party has made a grave error. . . . [SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] Camp Campbell...
...living progeny a pair of guinea pigs would have by St. Patrick's Day, 1968. It solves simultaneous linear algebraic equations, analyzes statistics, stores up the answers to difficult computations for future use in similar problems-and gets answers accurate to 23 places. When the machine makes an error, it automatically stops. Commander Aiken says it has already exposed eleven miscalculations in a certain formula that has been standard for years. He predicts that after the war his machine will solve problems in star movements which have never been tackled because the computation was too laborious...
Declared the great La Prensa in its lead editorial: "The gravest and most regrettable error" of anti-U.S. President Ramon Castillo was his muzzling of the press in December, 1941. It put him out of touch with Argentine public opinion, led to the unfortunate consequences from which the nation still suffered. Now, hoped La Prensa, the misunderstandings which conspired against hemisphere solidarity would disappear as the Argentine press recovered its right to express its opinions...
Some of the Morgenthauful error was due to the failure of the armed forces to take into account the increasing efficiency of U.S. industry, which trimmed the prices of materiel. Examples: Consolidated Liberators, which once cost $238,000 each, now cost...
...most of Mr. Morgenthau's error lay in the habit of overestimating the magnitude, enormous though it is, of the Treasury's problem. All last year he pleaded with Congress to pass at least a $10,500,000,000 tax bill. President Roosevelt urged the same thing; and Wendell Willkie topped them both with a demand for a $16,000,000,000 tax bill. In arguing for heavier taxes, they were all on the side of the angels, in that they were trying to sop up inflationary spending. But Mr. Morgenthau torpedoed his own argument by garbling...