Word: flops
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mechanical clock. Ever since 1943, when he became president of lively little (enrollment: 800) Mills College (for women) in Oakland, Calif., he has also been something of a maverick in the world of higher education. So far as women are concerned, says he, higher education is a flop. Last week, in a new book called Educating Our Daughters (Harper; $2.50), he told...
Back to the Sunsets. The flop was loud and emphatic. When the show he called the "Manhattan Pee-rade" decided to continue without him, Arthur says his final chance on a Chesterfield show "laid a terrible...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. finally decided that its grandiose venture into prefabricated housing was a dismal flop. It began foreclosure proceedings against Lustron Corp., after sinking $37.5 million of public funds into Lustron's scheme to produce low-cost enameled-steel dwellings on an assembly line. Lustron actually produced only 2,200 houses, repaid not a cent in interest or principal on RFC's loan. By foreclosing, RFC admitted, it could not hope to recoup much more than 5? on the dollar...
...intellectual vibrations. Liz was a prodigious worker who was seldom paid for her effort. For a time, she was William Ellery Channing's secretary, but the great preacher apparently never thought to pay her except in inspiration. The Dial, which she published and Emerson edited, was a financial flop. Her Boston bookstore was for years the meeting place of the literary greats of the day, but book sales were most discouraging...