Word: defunction
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...even more damage by wrecking any quick reconversion to peacetime production, and perhaps lead ultimately to much government competition with business. Come peace, Jesse Jones and colleagues will have a tremendous responsibility. For business skill of the first water will be needed to liquidate the monstrous estate of the defunct war-shrewdly enough to get the heirs their money's worth and swiftly enough to save the heirs from ruin...
Panofsky hobbies: dogs, movies. Panofsky was an ardent cinemaddict long before it became fashionable for intellectuals to take movies seriously, wrote learned papers about films for the Princeton art and archaeology department Bulletin, and the defunct, advance-guard expatriate quarterly transition. For a rest after completing his monumental job on Dürer, Panofsky retired to his Kennebunkport retreat, where he spends much time with his friend and neighbor, Art Collector Booth Tarkington...
Whether it wanted it or needed it or not Des Moines last week had Lawsonomy "the base of absolute knowledge." For an unnamed sum the Humanity Benefactor Foundation bought defunct Des Moines University's 14 acres and six buildings (including dormitories for about 390 students), closed since 1929. On hand for the occasion was Lawsonomist No. 1, a 74-year-old ex-ballplayer, ex-aviation operator, crusader for valueless money, named Alfred William Lawson...
...most of the actual work will fall on C.E.D.'s research director, Chicago's tall, suave Theodore Otte Yntema (whose salary is $20,000 a year) and on his assistants : Gardiner Means, of the now-defunct National Resources Planning Board, and Howard Myers, ex-economist...
...days after the President broadcast the first hint of the soldiers'-bonus-to-be, he made public the detailed proposal for postwar demobilization prepared by the now defunct National Resources Planning Board...