Word: floppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his Green Bay flop, Stevenson has wrestled with his scruples about 90% of parity, and won. In New York last week, he conferred with Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a leader of the farm-state Democrats, who hope to organize a "green uprising" against the G.O.P. at the polls next November. The Midwesterners made it plain that their support depended on Stevenson's acceptance of 90% of parity, and he came through...
...Engine Flop. Westinghouse denied that engine failure was responsible for any of he crashes. But it did admit that it had failed to supply the Navy with the kind of engine the Navy expected. Back in 1948, the Navy gave Westinghouse a contract to perfect a more powerful model of the J40 jet engine, which Westinghouse was then developing. The improved model was to go into the Demon fighters. But Westinghouse ran into a multitude of troubles. It lacked the engineers and experimental facilities to develop the engine which proved full of bugs, e.g., excessive fuel consumption. As a stopgap...
...Westinghouse engine flop crippled more than the Demon program. Five other Navy planes, which had been designed to take Westinghouse engines, were canceled, redesigned or delayed. Resulting loss to the Government: upwards of $100 million. The flop cost Westinghouse all its Government jet contracts, millions in potential profits and a big chunk of prestige...
...groups. Its lyrics sound the outcry of the suffering romantic, "I'm a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a Harlem dump, so many girls I don't know which way to jump." With equal fervor, Rock n Roll sympathizes with the nihilistic element of the Cambridge community, "I gotta Flip Flop n Fly, and I don't care...
With his TV station a flop, Liambey did his best to recoup with investments elsewhere. Last month one of his biggest depositors, a building contractor, discovered that the bank which held his money was using it to back a competitor. He demanded his money, but Liambey couldn't pay up. He begged the contractor to give him some time, then raced over to see his old friend Arthur Crovetto, Minister Plenipotentiary, Secretary of State, Director of the Cabinet. Crovetto was also the man who had persuaded Prince Rainier to deposit the state money in Liambey's bank. Panicked...