Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What in hell is wrong with you? I Was a Male War Bride is the first funny picture I've seen for two years...
They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
Even though he assumed a small attendance, Lunden asked for 5000 seats instead of the 3000 offered just in case he guessed wrong...
...guessed very wrong. A fabulous season ticket sale gobbled up 4000 of the seats (those in sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, section 5 being saved for the few undergraduate applicants). Saturday night Lunden totaled up his ticket requests and noted with surprise and horror that he already had 6000 applications for the 5000 seats. In desperation he phoned New York and got three more sections' worth of ducats, the not-so-good tickets in sections 1, 7, and 8. They disappeared yesterday...
Lunden has made an honest mistake. There was no evidence two weeks ago of the unprecedented demand for Columbia tickets. He had to guess and he guessed wrong. Much as it may grieve many of the fire-eaters, you cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good...