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...Cleveland bought $1,250, San Francisco $1,300, New Orleans $210.15, Los Angeles $2,000, Denver $600, Jacksonville $580, Portland, Ore., $329.10 and New York City $2,700 worth of art, sales managers, disappointed in these figures, figured that Art Week's main purpose (selling art) was a flop. But art-loving President Roosevelt was undaunted. Said he: "I feel justified in recommending that Art Week be made an annual event. . . . The fact that so much was done in a brief preparatory period this year justifies the establishment of this work on a permanent basis...
...Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost up to $500,000 a year, maybe more if too much trouble crops...
...YORK--The New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940, a gaudy and colossal flop financially, but a great show while it lasted, stripped down to the last midway cutie's last G-string last night and sounded quavering taps to a World of Tomorrow. It had bravely tried to lead toward peace and freedom, and expired, full of debts and disappointment...
...first talks to the silent, enigmatic workmen in the Chicago stockyards, the tension and half-exasperated dismay as Wendell Willkie lost his voice in his first overaggressive campaigning, the doleful predictions that the campaign would be the greatest story in U. S. political history by being its greatest flop. Behind them, too, lay the astonishing crowds. Ahead of them lay the trip over the mountains in flawless Western weather. And ahead of them lay the last weeks in which the issues of the campaign, despite candidates, crowds, arguments, would gradually be clarified...
...with arms and uniforms for 17,000 infantrymen and 6,000 cavalrymen, who were supposed to be waiting for their chance. When the expedition arrived at Quiberon Bay, it found less than half the recruits it expected, its staff work was atrocious, and the expedition was a blood-saturated flop...