Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that. All they knew was that Congress was going to "tear the lid off rubber"-and high time, too-but once the lid was off all they could see was a sheaf of alibis, and a "dreadful" corporation called Standard Oil. Jesse Jones said it wasn't his fault, he wasn't really in charge of rubber, ever; OPC Deputy Coordinator Ralph Davies said he wasn't either; Rubber Tsar Arthur Newhall (who took over this April) said very little, but everyone knew that his boss Don Nelson was still scrapping with the Army over the powers...
...worry about: the loyal crowd of "wool-hat" boys (small farmers) who always turn out to "hear The Man," was smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
...Another fault has been the rapid turnover of the dance committees. Nearly every House has, at one time or another, suffered from having an inexperienced man handling the business arrangements and in charge of hiring the orchestra...
...Egypt: that, above all else, tanks must have superior fire power. The Mark IVs main guns were better than anything in most of the British tanks. The British had many U.S. medium tanks ("General Grants") which theoretically outgunned even the Mark IVs. But the Grants had a serious fault: their main guns' limited field of fire...
...long range planning it is all too easy to find fault with others, he said. "We let the British do the fighting and then criticize them." The Versailles Treaty and the last peace settlement failed largely because its makers lived in the past and ignored economic factors...