Word: unpreparedness
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"On the floor of the Senate in May 1943, these words were uttered: 'After Pearl Harbor we found ourselves woefully unprepared for war.' Was that Dr. Goebbels? That Statement was made by Harry S. Truman."
This case system is rough but it has its higher components. Rod Willough by's dissertations on insurance adjustments always catch you unprepared and the ladies Blademaster demand in Company 1 ends all discussions, Joe Grishan reports.
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...
He charged, in sum, that the President's leadership in the crucial prewar years left the U.S. unprepared, either by physical armament or mental attitude for the war.
Joe Eastman was appointed ODT head over the opposition of critics who held that the depression-blighted railroads were unprepared for war.* They wanted Government control backed with a big stick, and Eastman, they protested, was no big-stick man. But Eastman dumbfounded his critics. He successfully carried an ever...