Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such provisions Alberta's Supreme Court found no inherent fault, although Justice Harvey found some parts of the bill incomprehensible. But Premier Manning and his Social Creditors came a. legal cropper on their means of financing the benefits. They proposed to set up a five-man Board of Credit Commissioners to estimate the value of all the "assets" of the province (mountains, rivers, forests, etc.), developed or undeveloped. All this blue-sky calculation would add up, Premier Manning and friends reckoned, to the grand sum of $231 billion. To this figure they proposed to add the "capitalized productive...
Like Hercules attacked by serpents in his cradle, LIFE almost came a cropper in its infancy by woefully underestimating public demand. Its advertising rate was only $1,500 a page, based on a 250,000-a-week guarantee. When circulation shot over a million in four months, advertisers crowded aboard for a free ride. The cost of printing 750,000 unexpected copies far exceeded the revenue from advertising and circulation. Editor Henry R. Luce had earmarked $1,000,000 of Time Inc. money "to see LIFE to success or into an honorable grave"-but before rates were adjusted...
Second and third prize went to a couple of propagandists in paint: second to Boston's perpetually angry young Jack Levine for his bitter Welcome Home (TIME, May 20), a mottled-looking general at a misty banquet; third to William Cropper's muddy, violent Don Quixote No. i, a starved white horse and black-armored rider careening past theatrical rocks...
That's an Island. But the veteran of rugged North Africa and Normandy campaigns nearly came a cropper while inspecting Fort Benning, Ga. Enthusiastic Master Sergeant Hugh Cook cornered the Marshal with a tale of the battle for Okinawa. Monty, magnificently insular, looked blank. "That's an island in the Pacific, sir," prompted Lieut. General J. Lawton Collins, Army Public Relations chief. Monty looked relieved...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...