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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...
...clean out of fur men last week was the news that Manhattan's Motty Eitingon Inc., the nation's largest single operator in furs, had filed in bankruptcy, begged for a six months' moratorium on its obligations. Eitingon (rhymes with biting gone), who had come a cropper once before in furs (in 1932 he had to reorganize after a $7,500,000 loss) had got himself in trouble again for the same reason-overexpansion...
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...