Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower's endearing attachment to the notion that there should be a Hoover in every White House explains much of the virginal optimism and defunct conservatism emanating from Washington. A recession, however is not a Phoenix generating its own resurrection, and wishful thinking is often an admission that the wells of wisdom have been filled with poverty-stricken nostalgia...
...Administration has become entangled by its own double-talk and mouthwash slogans. "Peace, Progress, and Prosperity" expressed a hopeful note which somewhere turned sour. A successful military man should know that last war's weapons fast become obsolete, yet defunct ideas and empty symbols still dominate the President's approach to recession recovery. The White House, for example, was exceedingly cruel when it suggested recently that the unemployed were being uncooperative by their failure to buy more goods. Luxury items, to be sure, are selling close to pre-recession levels, but the rich are patriotic and will always pull hard...
...town of rickety houses and muddy streets, produces nearly all of Japan's stainless-steel flatware-and sends 80% to the U.S. This good fortune is due to U.S. businessmen; they put Tsubame back to work after World War II, when its shabby flatware industry was nearly defunct. The first few small orders from occupation forces for stainless-steel flatware helped keep its 15,000 people alive. Then in 1949, some U.S. cutlery companies saw in Tsubame a wonderful opportunity. The U.S. companies wanted low-priced stainless steelware to undercut the high-quality product that Europeans had begun shipping...
When the news broke in the winter of 1956 that a distinguished educator from St. Louis had bought up the campus of the defunct Chillicothe Business College and was about to open a full-fledged university, the whole town of Chillicothe. Mo. (pop. 9,850) was delighted at the thought of the prestige it would bring. The university's founder-president, the Rev. Clyde Belin. B.B.A.. Th.B.. Th.M., Th.D.. Ph.D., was a scholarly, dedicated-looking gentleman. His plans for setting up a liberal arts college, a Bible college, a college of engineering, and schools of home...
...publisher of the now defunct Boston Post (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956), John Fox, 51, batted out a bullish financial column (pseudonym: Washington Waters) and choleric editorials for his paper, thus giving Post staffers their own version of the standard typewriter-testing sentence: "Quick John Fox jumped over the lazy editorial writer's back." Last week, after ten months of jumping over creditors' backs, fast-moving ex-Publisher Fox was finally arrested to face indictments charging him with nonpayment of $27,000 in wages to 93 Post staffers. After appearances before two judges and a brief sojourn in Suffolk...