Word: unkept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unkept Promises. In that five-minute meeting, the life flickered out of a newspaper that had been a sometimes noble, often confused experiment. In nine years, it had cost Chicago's wealthy, well-intentioned Marshall Field some $7,000,000. He had hoped for a change when Crum & Barnes took over last spring (TIME, May 10). They had big plans, high hopes and promises of plenty of money from new investors. The promises were not kept. Field had had to pump in another $600,000 and Joe Barnes had to neglect his editing to hunt more money...
...with all that, your radio seems to me an amazing tissue of unkept promises and bad mistakes. One of the worst . . . is that there are not enough able radio writers, actors or directors to fill the least part of your colossal number of broadcasting hours. And you make almost no effort to cultivate them...
...indigestible plot, full of false leads and unkept promises, is like a woman's magazine serial consumed at one gulp. It begins as a romance. Miss Hepburn is a scientist's daughter-a moody, headstrong girl who doesn't quite know what she wants out of life. Then Robert Taylor, a fabulously rich airplane-parts tycoon, sweeps her off her feet...