Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manager Bill McKechnie of the Cincinnati Reds bought a plane ticket from Chicago to Pittsburgh, jumped into a cab after he landed, ordered the driver to Forbes Field. The driver had never heard of it. McKechnie seethed but it was not the driver's fault. McKechnie had hopped the wrong plane, was sitting in a cab in Detroit...
...production of 2,600 tanks, those tanks go into production without benefit of Chrysler's criticism as to how, as automotive vehicles, they could be improved. The result is an engine of war that, at the very start of its production, is already militarily obsolete; the fault lies equally with the Army and with Chrysler...
...armed effort with its industrial capacity; they are not succeeding. There is no forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no integrated authority. There is no rational organization. There is no rational plan. Who, or what, is at fault? "The major responsibility for this state of affairs rests squarely on the doorstep of the President...
...fault of Editor Ingersoll's, the idea for Parade belongs to an efficiency expert named Ross Art Lasley, a 42-year-old Yalester whose high-powered advice has for ten years been sold to such high-powered clients as Standard Oil, Western Union, National Dairy Products, Pennsylvania Railroad. Called in by Marshall Field's lawyers and trustees to dilute PM losses (TIME, June 2), Expert Lasley came out with Parade. He also decided to do the editing himself...
Iceland is now nearly treeless. This is not entirely the climate's fault: its coasts, washed by the Gulf Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...