Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always dependable are U. S. motorists; last week their demand for gasoline was up about 6% over 1939. Yet oilmen still had small reason to hope that rising U. S. consumption would knock the hump out of gasoline's inventory curve. Nor were war and winter alone to blame. More important than either in oil's overproduction is an unlovely derrick forest in Southern Illinois...
Although no Cabinet crisis followed at once, the press, the public and the politicians began asking pointed questions. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood (whose Party, having opposed conscription, was partly to blame for the troops' greenness) said in a speech over the weekend: "I believe that military and naval direction of the war in Norway is competent. What I do not understand or trust is the political direction...
Watch out for falling corpses. And don't blame the featured pup, MacTavish--he's house-broken...
...them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years' service. On him the New York Central line placed the blame, said the speed tape in his cab showed he had driven the Limited at a speed of 59 m.p.h. into the sharpest curve on the main line of the Central system. Maximum speed for the curve, by company regulation: 45 m.p.h...
...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...