Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Lion's losses were blamed by National Film Finance President David Kingsley on "films costing more than they took in at the box office. It is as simple as that." British moviemen thought it was not quite so simple. They thought British Lion had died of an ailment that it shared with the whole British movie industry: an entertainment tax of almost 40% of box-office receipts. While dribbling subsidies in at one end, the government keeps draining off profits at the other, has collected $515 million in the last five years...
Died. Maury Maverick, 58, dumpy, dynamic Texas Democrat, onetime clean-up mayor of San Antonio (1939-41), two-term U.S. Representative (1935-39); of a heart ailment; in San Antonio. An ardent New Dealer and champion of small business, he nonetheless scorned Washington bureaucratese; once, after scanning a subordinate's report, he gruffly coined a capital classic: "Gobbledygook...
...home for my mother cat and three kittens." Brushoff. In Memphis, suing Baptist Hospital for $15,000, Grocery Clerk Fred Oliver, 46, testified that he had awakened after an abdominal operation to find that his mustache had disappeared, later suffered "hurt and embarrassment" when, because of a skin ailment, the mustache would not grow back...
Died. Louis Stark, 66, veteran New York Times newsman, Pulitzer Prize-winning dean of U.S. labor reporters; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Died. Clyde Roark Hoey, 76, Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina since 1945, one-term (1937-41) governor of North Carolina; of a heart ailment; in his office in Washington...