Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judgment was harsh. It was also measured. It made clear that the U.S. was not hunting a scapegoat for a defeat. The report of the President's five-man investigating commission told finally how the disaster occurred at Hawaii (see cols. 1-2) and it placed the blame, for "dereliction of duty," squarely upon Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanders on the spot...
...almost alone in his optimism. Leon Henderson bluntly advised a House Committee, considering a suggestion to exempt Washington taxis from tire restrictions, that the nation's largest rubber stockpile in history (600,000 tons) would not stretch more than seven months if normal consumption were permitted. Harsh were his facts on tires: in the face of a normal demand for 35,000,000 annually, the U.S. could provide 9,000,000 or fewer...
...demise in Philadelphia newspaperdom last week underscored a harsh truism: U.S. magazine publishers have failed notoriously to publish successful newspapers. The long-sick Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger was ordered liquidated by a Federal District Court. With it disappears the last remnant of the would-be newspaper empire started 29 years ago by the late, great Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, genius of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, etc. His empire-building had cost $42,000,000 and he had bought, started or swallowed eight newspapers with a combined peak circulation of 848,000. But, like Frank Munsey and Bernarr Macfadden...
...wives and daughters of U.S. civilians were still there, and the Japanese were strutting. In abandoned Manila they ordered all whites to stay indoors or be shot. From his fortress in the harbor, Douglas MacArthur charged that this treatment of U.S. civilians was already "especially harsh...
...made a "Theater of Operations." All news and photographs of troops, their identity, location, number, individual names was forbidden except with official sanction. The Navy next issued a strong warning "To the Public" with subheads reading: THIS IS A MODERN WAR-THIS IS A TOTAL WAR-THIS IS A HARSH WAR. It warned citizens not to discuss ships, sailors, weapons, casualties, ship damage or defense production. Still more drastically, Army and Navy on the West Coast began censoring domestic telegrams and examining air express...