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...investigate the Mayor's charge, Cambridge-Arlington officials made a 30 minute inspection tour in a special MTA bus Tuesday, but Foley called the trip a flop...
Fosca wanted to unite all Italy in the 15th century. He failed. He took service under Emperor Maximilian (1459-1519) in the hope of uniting Europe. This was a flop, too. As adviser to Spain's Don Carlos (1500-1558), Fosca decided that the New World was the future's best bet; instead, he found it was nothing but an extension of the Old, smirched with the massacres of Indians. When the Age of Reason dawned. Fosca took fresh courage, but found that Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine...
...stiff axle-mile tax (up to 2½? a mile per truck) on all trucks traveling in the state may be eased by the state legislature this year. Not only have Ohio truckers lost their freedom from local taxes in other states, but the law itself has been a flop; instead of bringing in $20 million in new revenues, it has netted only half that amount and helped drive 18 firms out of the state...
...Flop. Three Little Pigs (1933) and The Country Cousin (1936), a technical masterpiece in the new Technicolor, proved that Disney was ready at last for the task he had set himself: to make a full-length cartoon feature. It had long been his heart's desire, but by this time it was a business necessity; cartoon costs had risen so high that it was no longer possible to make a profit with shorts. So he borrowed $1,500,000 and made Snow White. Released in 1937, it was one of the biggest hits that Hollywood had produced since...
...Music, Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...