Word: 18s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talking of making 60 pictures a year and beating Hollywood at its own game of mass production. How badly he had flopped was shown by the prices of stocks in his two top companies, both at their eight-year lows. Gaumont-British common, which hit a high of 18s. last year, was down to 4s. 6d. last week. Odeon Theatres common, which had been up to 453., was down to 8. Commented the London Evening Standard: "In view of the gloomy estimates [of] the past year's results . . . shareholders must be prepared for shocks as far as dividends...
Christie's first paintings brought absurdly low prices. At his first picture auction, a Holbein went for ?3 18s. and a Titian for two guineas. But Christie's friends, Painters Reynolds and Gainsborough, taught him the value of "stained rags"; Christie's descendants and their successors (the last Christie in the firm died in 1889) have never forgotten the lessons. Paintings now comprise the bulk of their sales. In 1876 Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described...
Most of the cargo would have to ripen before being sold. Then it will go to under-18s only; adults must wait for the next shipload from Jamaica...
...pounders had missed the target, but the next wave (three Douglas B-18s) slapped in their loads without a single miss. Black smoke belched up in geysers, junk tanks flipped on their sides, armored cars flumped limply on their bellies...