Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle for bigger headlines, press officers for the military, like other Government bureaucrats, sometimes try to make a news story seem bigger than it actually is. Last week, through the snafus of its own censorship setup, the U.S. Navy got caught at the trick...
After that, a comedy of errors and bureaucratic snafus began. While the Navy in Tokyo sat on the censor's copies of the stories for twelve days, A.P., using its uncensored copy, succeeded in getting it okayed in Washington with just three major deletions. Stricken out were the use of "TV eyes," the fact that the "missiles" were actually obsolete airplanes and carried 2,000-lb. bombs. Last week A.P. sent out the story for release to the morning papers. When U.P. got word of the release, it asked its Tokyo office why its own story was not being...
...worst of Washington's snafus is defense housing. No one can agree on how many new houses the U.S. needs, where to build them or when. Meanwhile, spot shortages have cropped up all over the U.S., and many landlords have been gouging civilians and soldiers, Last week Rent Stabilizer Tighe E. Woods let fly at what he thought was wrong...
...General Kenneth F. Cramer's 43rd Division chalked up so many snafus that...
...another period of recuperation (on a nightmarish island called Pavuvu, which had been picked as a "rest area" in one of the war's major snafus), then tackled its next assignment-Peleliu. It was the division's first strongly opposed landing and its bloodiest, hardest battle of the war. The Navy and air preparation had knocked out only a small part of the cleverly protected Jap installations. On the beach the marines were caught in a tremendous torrent of fire. The division took Peleliu at a cost of 6,000 casualties out of 23,000 men (of whom...