Word: fiasco
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...construction, maintenance, refunding old debts, U. S. business needs money badly. Normal method of getting it is by selling stocks or bonds. But since last fall's market crash and the fiasco which resulted when the public refused...
...them than by a swap of her coffee. To Italy she agreed to send $200,000 worth of her $9,000,000 crop; Italy, in return, will ship four Caproni fighting planes worth $160,000 and $40,000 worth of parts. The deal was not motivated by the recent fiasco flight of Italian seaplanes to South America...
...Italian good will flight had been a mild fiasco. To avoid appearing Fascist-minded, the Brazilian Government gave the fliers a cool welcome. Meanwhile, the Buenos Aires Critica, chief anti-Fascist organ of the Argentine press, decried the flight so bitterly that Argentina was omitted from the itinerary...
...Lane warned his organization against becoming a mere discussion group, and stated that discussion was but the prelude to action. If "action" means repetition of last fall's fiasco, when certain members of the Labor Committee of the Student Union so approached the Boston Chapter of the C. I. O. that those worthy gentlemen took it as an invitation to pay a visit to Harvard, the less that the University has of it, the better. If "action" means public rallies, circularized pamphlets, and participation in local politics, the Union is accomplishing nothing for its greater good at Harvard...
...France's smartest young politicians. He has held the post of Air Minister off & on since 1933. His biggest feat was the merging of five unimportant airlines into potent Air France. Last week his prestige from this achievement was, temporarily at least, forgotten as the result of a fiasco which has been in the making for a year and last week attained its climax...