Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joyfully announced that company profits for the first ten months of this fiscal year were a whopping $12,579,245, recently finished the third of a series of two-week conclaves on the problem. Out from New York to confer with production heads went President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century, whose six-month divvy of $11,449,449 was 111% higher than last year...
...story of the 20th Century too vast and confusing for the men who were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a departed British sea captain (Rex Harrison) who haunts a house occupied by an attractive young widow...
...Jolson Story (Columbia) is a fine, noisy celebration of Hollywood's two decades of talking movies. To the embarrassment of Warner Bros., currently whooping up the 20th anniversary of sound (which they started) with some none-too-skillful pictures, this splashy, expert piece of entertainment was made by a rival studio...
...this one is told through a contemporary or nearly contemporary mouthpiece. The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D. Agabus-Graves's information on religious and political matters in ancient Palestine greatly exceeds anything the 20th Century possesses. He loses no time in flatly telling the 20th Century reader a number of things he never heard before...