Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been running the paper, had put it briefly in the black last year. When Lewis' restless boss came back, many of Lewis' people (including the ones he hired during the war) were the first to go. Next to go was PM's standoffish attitude toward scandal...
Great Britain's bumbling auto industry was so slow getting out of the garage that the House of Commons took a look under the hood. One angry member described what he saw last week as "a national scandal." After eight months of trying, the industry could still produce no more than 3,000 cars a week; it would be lucky to achieve even half its original 1946 goal...
...came home from World War I found plenty of promises but a country unprepared either to reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
...mark. The incomparable veneer of British courtesy has cracked; too many Britons are too tired to be invariably courteous. Even British honesty, which had been no veneer, has cracked; thievery in the customs and shipping services, notably on incoming parcels of food and clothing, is now an open scandal. Black-marketeering prospers as it never did during the war's bad years-and it is no longer considered shameful to admit a part...
...keeping the roads in bankruptcy, Wheeler named no names, but concluded suspiciously: "The only reason I can see is that some receivers and lawyers want them to stay in bankruptcy so they can continue to draw down fees. Frankly, I think it is getting to be a scandal...