Word: muddleheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The trouble lay in the abrupt, muddleheaded way the cutback had been ordered -without due notice. Henry Kaiser, in his seven months at Brewster, had laid off 7,000 men, and not even the union had protested. But the Administration had stepped in unprepared, and fumbled its first big cutback...
For some years Lumberman MacMillan has been the world's No. 1 exporter of lumber. But, at 55, success has not smoothed his edge. To a muddleheaded Government clerk who telephoned him to ask what should be done with a carload of shingles, he replied: "Print the Lord'...