Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...
...worried about opera's future. Chief troubles with it nowadays, he feels, are that its theatres are too big, its language foreign, its settings antiquated. A simple melodist in his own music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must not be too good...
Promotion. Like all world's fairs, this is a business venture, a supposedly self-supporting promotion stunt. Few such stunts actually break even. The Century of Progress did manage to net $702,171, but that was a peewee return on the $47,000,000 investment (of which $10,000,000 was put up by the fair's promoters and recovered in full). The real return was an estimated $700,000,000 in extra business it drew to Chicago...
...dump site, including four of the fair buildings, will revert to the city as a park half again as large as Manhattan's famed Central Park and valued in the grandiloquent Whalen fashion at $100,000,000. New York State and City thus are guaranteed a certain tangible return on their money...
These bonds, plus $12,000,000 in pre-fair revenues, represents the actual stake of the corporation in the venture. On this promotional outlay, much of which is likely to be recovered, the businessmen of New York may well reap a good return...