Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whose Fault? Against this background, which was not too dissimilar from that of other war-crowded cities, Michigan's Governor Harry F. Kelly last week issued the report of a committee he had set up to determine the causes of Detroit's riot. Said the report, in a broad whitewash of the city's bumbling, do-nothing administration and incompetent police force...
...failure was not entirely OWI's fault. The propaganda agency has never had a clear explanation of U.S. foreign policy from either Franklin Roosevelt or his State Department. Until it gets one, OWI is likely to muff it again...
Behind the Rising Sun's greatest fault: its refusal to leave anything in the nature of nightmare to the imagination...
...Canada's House of Commons last week Prime Minister William Lyon King aired a grievance against the U.S. and Britain. Diplomatically but to the point, he found fault with London and Washington "security precautions" which: 1) prohibited him from making announcements occasionally on the progress of the war; 2) failed to single out and credit Canadian forces when credit was due. Canada and smaller countries, he suggested, might get a news break now & then...
Pinochle Speed-Up. Two years ago, Detroit's Murray Corp. (auto frames and parts) was having production trouble with its branch plant in Ecorse, a Detroit suburb. The fault lay in obsolete time studies (schedules setting average time to complete operations), which actually gave some workmen so much free time that they played pinochle in washrooms. Murray got its U.A.W.-C.I.O. local to agree to new time studies by a firm of industrial engineers. To quiet union suspicions of a profit-inspired speedup, Murray did something unique in time study history: five union men were selected to take...