Word: slipshodness
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...could control this nation of 450 million merely by sending in war material and pushing the right buttons in Washington. Unfortunately this is one of the mistaken notions that actually did cost us China. But the most discouraging aspect of a book like "While We Slept" is not its slipshod thinking but its totally negative approach. The author's vitriolic attack on a dead president and a group of largely imaginary Devils is of no use in formulating foreign policy today. Mr. Flynn's new book could be accurately titled "The Road to No-where...
...could, of course, be solved by the simple expedient of increasing the number of trial judges. But Open feels that nothing of this sort should be done, lest it tend to lower the quality of the judiciary. Rather a 29-month wait for true justice than a swift and slipshod treatment of individual rights and liberties, say the university savants. In any event, they point out, increased effort by the present number of solons will probably eliminate the court backlog within twenty or thirty years...
...scion of a Virginia banking family, went to work at Manhattan's Lee, Higginson & Co. after graduating from Harvard Business School. In 1929, after switching to his father's bank, he started a proxy fight to wrest Freeport's control away from a management he thought slipshod. Young Whitney, heir to an estimated $100 million fortune, had taken a $15-a-week "buzzer boy" job at Lee, Higginson rather than loaf. At the suggestion of his department boss, 25-year-old Whitney plunked a $500,000 stake into Williams' fight, enabled him to win the battle...
...thought that Kiefer alone would have to bear the burden of the catastrophe. Even if he had failed to see the warning signal, why had the slipshod Long Island, unwanted and neglected stepchild of the great Pennsylvania Railroad*,failed to install automatic stopping devices, which Manhattan subways had had for 48 years? Fed up with years of gross-incompetence on a system that carries more passengers than any other U.S. railroad (300,000 daily), and appalled by the disastrous accident, commuters made an indignant demand: investigate the whole operation of the Long Island, rescue it from what passengers were sure...
Such breeding is by no means new, but Schnering thinks it has been "too localized and slipshod" to have much effect. From his herd of 50 purebred bulls, Schnering expects to deliver anywhere in the U.S. on 24 hours' notice. He plans to send out technically trained salesmen with refrigerated kits containing the latest Curtiss product. At prices ranging from $7 for "pool" semen (i.e., an unspecified bull) up to $150 (selected sires), a successful mating will be guaranteed...