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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Guided Boomerang | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Trouble Among the Moles | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...General Kenneth F. Cramer's 43rd Division chalked up so many snafus that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The First Team | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...Snafus Frequent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Remains in Amphitryon Despite Socialite's Demand | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

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