Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detroit's Charles Langs, who invented a stick-on, strapless bra named "Poses," but came a cropper when he tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea, Textron also got full title to the job of soothing irate Poses' customers who are griping over shoddy workmanship and non-delivery of orders...
...President, unhorsed in the Senate battle over civil rights, came a cropper again, this time in the fight in the House to overthrow the Taft-Hartley Act. Harried from every side, his congressional forces were trapped between a softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Administration's moderately toughened version of the Wagner...
...Marshall Plan goal of independent economy by 1953 with more determined self-help than self-denying Britons. Finletter had no need to pressure or preach. Socialist Britain, in fact, could be quite touchy about capitalist America's help. As Finletter well knew, EGA could come a political cropper if it crudely pressed a capitalist tract into Britain's hand along with the ham sandwich...
...rule the world will inevitably be destroyed . . . The Anglo-Saxons are in serious danger of taking just that step." Optimistically, Wallace added that he hoped "we may all soon meet in Moscow." At a $10-a-plate dinner, backed by a huge "antiwar" mural by Masses & Mainstream Cartoonist William Cropper, stout, bearded Charles Stewart, public-relations man for the Churchman, took up a collection. He raised close to $20,000 from the 1,900 diners, with the exhortation: "This meeting is only a beginning...
Stranger-Trouble. Novelist Taylor comes a cropper in dealing with the handsome stranger-a psychotic who is a good deal more dangerous than Camilla at first suspects. Mrs. Taylor suggests facets of his character, all neatly and plausibly, but no individual emerges. At the climax of the story Camilla is filled with understandable terror at learning that her new friend is a murderer. The motives and behavior of the young man at this point are, however, by no means made credible to the reader. The novel ends rather helplessly with his suicide...