Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, faced with the prospect of boosting subway fares, told an audience: "[It] isn't my fault that the nickel got grey-headed and bald. It has lost its teeth and hair ... it can't buy anything any more...
...much desperate hope for U.N.'s success bring forth such a schizoid mouse of futility? It was not the fault of the delegates-mostly hardworking, second-rate men who would have done no better had they been first-rate. U.N. could not stand above the nations because it was created by nations who wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years...
...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...
Estimate. As investigators went over the Gallup plane, suspicion at first centered on the heating system. The Sixes have had trouble recently when both the heating and pressurizing systems were working. But tests showed no fault in the heater. Investigators suspected another cause. This was that gasoline, overflowing from the wing tanks, had caught fire as it was vented under the fuselage just forward of the heater air intake. If that proved to be the case, Douglas estimated that modifications could be made in a short time. But the Sixes would stay on the ground until CAB and Douglas were...
...strange mixture of almost uniformly fine performance and a disorganized and occasionally disagreeable program formed the essential elements of last night's concert at Sanders Theatre. The credit can be evenly spread but the fault lies with the direction...