Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft ice from yesterday's early morning heat wave forced the Yardling Hockey team to cancel its scheduled game with Framingham. The match has been reslated for this afternoon depending on the weather...
Whether makers of big planes would continue to lose money depended mostly on their Government orders. The Army & Navy hoped to spend some $250 million on research and development in 1947. But planemakers feared that an economy-minded Congress might force the services to cancel those plans, along with a large part of their $679 million worth of orders for new planes already placed. Said one discouraged airman: "When Don Douglas starts saying things are going to be rosy you can bet there's going to be trouble...
Disappearing Dreams. Outsiders thought that some of T.W.A.'s troubles were also due to T.W.A.'s overambitious expansion plans. T.W.A. had increased its payroll to service many foreign routes before T.W.A. had the planes to fly them. Now, the strike had caused the line to cancel orders for 25 new planes and it was shrinking its payrolls even faster than it had expanded; it planned to lay off 3,400 of its 16,000 employes by year's end. Like other transatlantic lines, it was also flying half-empty planes from the U.S. to Europe. Reason: travelers...
...Krishna Menon was forced to cancel a scheduled lecture on Indian political problems last night when he was suddenly called to London to participate in conferences between Jawaharlal Nehru, head of the Indian National Congress, and Clement Attice, England's Prime Minister...
...Kansas City Philharmonic came a cacophony of sweet and sour notes: the too-familiar sweet notes of Brahms and the too-familiar sour notes of an empty cash register. Conductor Karl Krueger had signed up with the Detroit Symphony. Sponsors debated whether to try out a new conductor or cancel the next concert season. In the end, they hired lanky Efrem Kurtz. Since that time, three years ago, they haven't had a moment's regret...