Word: unpreparedness
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Into Dutch Harbor, in ships from Seattle, poured men looking for the good money being paid labor. They worked until the glacial rains soaked into their livers, then fled south again. Standing labor report from Unalaska Island: one crew going, one crew working but not liking it, one crew coming...
Canada last week took care that World War II would not follow the economic pattern of World War I. Like the U.S. and most other countries, Canada was unprepared for the soaring inflation of the first World War, or for the sick swoop of depression that followed.
They arrived in Washington with equerries, maids, a Scotland Yardsman, three Cairn terriers-Delto, Breezy and Pooky -106 pieces of luggage. They were prepared to be met by official lukewarmth, unprepared for a tumultuous, sigh-heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour. Both were sartorially splendid; both...
The training of Harvard students during this war differs radically from the method employed in 1916-17. The country was absolutely unprepared in 1916 and the result was a general scramble to get under arms in which Harvard took a prominent part.
Lost Illusions. To Germans of all ages this news meant that another illusion was gone. The Nazis had assured them: 1) bombers will never reach Berlin; 2) Russia is our friend and this war will never have two fronts; 3) the war will end in 1940; 4) in 1941; 5...