Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's Voice. In these six years of trial and endurance, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, more than any other man, has grown in stature as the symbol of a nation. Many a Chinese finds fault with the social and political views of this strong, indomitable leader who rose from China's minor gentry to direct 450,000,000 people. But none fails to see him as the chief artisan of resistance and final victory over Japan, of equality at the table of the nations...
...fixed as the great, underlying fault in U.S. food management: from 1932 to 1939, the acreage in 17 leading crops, comprising 95% of our harvested area, was reduced 47 million acres through Federal restrictions. By 1942, the U.S. had recovered only nine million of the lost acres. To get the remainder back in production is the great...
...winding up its work for the year, the Unfair Practices Committee of the Student Council reported that the strained relations existing between undergraduates and various valeteria services have been the fault, not only of the valeterias concerned, but also of the student body...
...never got through, and to this extent El Guettar was a failure. The fault was not with the 1st Division, which took all its objectives on schedule. It was partly the fault of the 9th, which took ridge after ridge only to leave pockets of the enemy in its rear. The Germans had mortars sunk in gullies which could be captured only by hand-to-hand combat. They had heavy artillery which covered the hills on both sides of the pass and the valley between. And they had observation posts on the highest peaks which could direct their fire anywhere...
Yerex' meat was poison to Pan American Airways, which has had a monopoly on all scheduled air traffic south from Miami. It was not Pan Am's fault that it had not been able to transport all the people and freight accumulated in Miami: it could not get the necessary additional planes...