Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Preisinger, owner of the second largest hotel in town, who played the part in 1950 and was much praised for his combination of gentleness and physical endurance during 85 eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg. a 21-year-old salesgirl. Anneliese Mayr, 20. landed the part...
...saddle than any government the Chinese people have known for two centuries past. Yet the undertones of uneasiness occasionally audible in the proceedings of the National People's Congress carried with them the possibility that in some circumstances unforeseeable now the whole thing could come a cropper: a desperate people, overworked, underfed, a trivial incident of defiance, a single lapse of authority-such as an army unit's refusal to fire on a handful of insubordinate peasants in a commune-might set off a chain reaction. No one saw such prospects now. Yet better than anyone else...
Minute Maid, which had grown fast since its founding in 1945, got into trouble when it bought out Snow Crop in 1954 to diversify into other frozen fruits and vegetables. Last year Snow Crop came a cropper; a surplus of fresh fruits and vegetables depressed prices while competition cut profit margins. Minute Maid ran into further trouble in its own orange processing, where costs increased while retail prices slid. Though 1957 sales were $103 million, the company reported a pre-tax loss of $5,000,000. When a December freeze hit Florida's citrus crop, Wall Street assumed...
...into the big time by ordering three big Lockheed Super-G Constellations. In service last year, the planes promptly started losing $350,000 a month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan and Europe, lost so heavily that the late Philippine President Magsaysay finally called a halt...
...England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. But at the halfway mark, only 19 of the 31 starters were still running, and at the finish there were only seven. Even Mr. What, the tough little Irish gelding that had taken all the other jumps cleanly, almost came a cropper at the last hedge. But Mr. What kept his balance and won the richest Grand National ever ($46,858) by 30 lengths. In second place: last year's third-place horse, Tiberetta...