Word: unsound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conveniently labelled as financially unsound, the original plan for University-operated parking lots on Soldiers Field and behind the Business School bears careful reconsideration. Such problems as grading the land, surfacing it with cinders, constructing a six foot fence and a sentry-box for the watchman seem easily surmountable in view of the great influx of cars. More important, however, is a University objection that the project would be a ridiculous investment if, as last year, students refused to use the area. Since the Student Council is investigating the situation, it might be wise to conduct another poll and determine...
...Pundit Lippmann, this conception and plan "is fundamentally unsound . . . 'a policy of holding the line and hoping for the best' . . . [which] cannot be made to work unless we get all the breaks . . . [i.e.] the Soviet Union will break its leg while the U.S. grows a pair of wings." Asked Lippmann: "Do we dare to assume that...
...city councilmen dutifully passed a unification plan. The plan was approved by voters in a referendum, by surface and elevated line bondholders, and by the federal court which had jurisdiction over the bankrupt operating companies. But in 1943 the Illinois Commerce Commission rejected Kelly's proposals as "unsound...
Long denied many simple necessities, and particularly hard-hit in foodstuffs and clothing, the British masses not only know of the plenty that exists in America, but, more important, are in the psychologically unsound position of being at the receiving end of countless gifts, ranging from individual parcels to the US Loan. Not to be overlooked either as catalysts in forming this conscious or unconscious attitude are the American views toward Palestine and the sight of new Buicks and Packards in Grosvenor Square...
...nick in production. The company stated that it had originally signed an F.A.A. contract-the first in the auto industry-in hopes of making the foremen a more effective part of management. Instead, relations had become so bad that the company now felt that such unions were "unsound in principle...