Word: unpreparedness
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Tuesday. Nanking, the Nationalist capital, lies 210 miles up the Yangtze. A river patrol of seven Japanese destroyers is stationed there. Without warning, their commander began bombing the city which was simultaneously plunged into darkness except for searchlights which wavered fearfully from the Chinese airport. Enormously strengthened by the arrival...
''While this year will undoubtedly be the worst that commercial aeronautics has ever experienced ... it will be the best from the standpoint of re-establishing the industry upon a firm foundation. The economic, sieve has been at work, sifting out the insecure and the unprepared who rushed into...
Before a joint committee of New York State law-makers engaged in revising New York's public utility laws, appeared last week Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Even as many a Yale student has replied "I don't know" to questions asked by Professor Fisher, so Professor Fisher replied "I...
In the atmosphere of a mystery-melodrama was the tax announcement framed. First President Hoover held an early morning White House conference with Secretary Mellon, Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, Governor Roy Archibald Young of the Federal Reserve Board. So early in the morning was it and so...
Utterly unprepared was the U. S. to impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected...