Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government, by other phases of its home propaganda, partly defeated its own purposes. For example, the people were told that the reorganized military defenses were so strong that enemy planes could never again penetrate to the centers of Japanese cities. Accepting this, the people themselves have made only haphazard preparations against air attack, and the civilian air-raid precaution system is poorly organized and equipped. Foxholes in back yards are the only shelters; fire-fighting equipment is old and inadequate. The people know all this, but they remain confident that their leaders can keep the war at a distance...
...watch out." For months the enterprise squeaked through by selling two tickets for the price of one-mostly to high-school-age smirkers. In January it was set to close, but was taken over by a saloonkeeper and a hat-check man who abandoned the play's haphazard promotion for a frontal attack featuring sex. Lately, with $3,800 expenses, the play has raked in $10,000 a week, and a road company is being rehearsed. Its destination: war-busy, well-heeled Detroit...
Godfather of the Foreign Affairs Council was Cleveland's famed adopted son, Newton Diehl Baker. In 1923 he helped launch it as the Council for the Prevention of War, watched it lead a haphazard existence until 1934. Then, to an earnest, handsome young man of 34 who was teaching foreign affairs at Yale, he wrote: "The problem we are interested in is . . . that form of adult education about foreign and national affairs which will be so consecutive, continuous and disinterested as to make the whole people . . . conscious at the same time of the same set of facts. . . . Instead...
...sweater-and-skirt-jammed auditorium of Alumnae Hall went simply mad about Wellesley's Junior Show which made its solo appearance Friday evening. Burlesquing everything from "The New Yorker" and Knittin' for Britain to the WAVES and the 11:50 train, this haphazard musical may not stand up under critical scrutiny, but it more than served its purpose of entertainment...
...need for a unified, administrative agency with full authority is vital and immediate. At present WPB allocates only to those mills who can't get scrap--other mills buy what and where they can. With capable direction, industry-wide allocation of scrap could be substituted for the present haphazard system. Systematic requisitioning of all possible sources of steel could augment the current scrap collection. Robert Moses, ex-director of the New York City scrap drive, has developed the possibilities along this line with his recent detailed estimate that fifty thousand tons of unneeded steel construction exist in that city alone...