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...heard one story of a painter who did nothing but portraits of Stalin; he had a big backlog of these in his studio, which, since the coming of deStalinization, he cannot sell, and he has been ruined...
...THUNDERBIRD for four is selling so fast that Ford will double production this month to 200 a day. Order backlog runs through June; buyers in some areas are paying $500 under the table for immediate delivery...
...hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Massey-Ferguson. Ltd. sold more new combines and tractors between Nov. 1 and March 1 than at any other time in the past five years. Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. is well ahead of 1957, while J. I. Case Co. has the biggest backlog in its history, recorded sales of $21.4 million for the quarter ended Jan. 31 v. $16.1 million last year. Said one J. I. Case executive: "Our biggest trouble right now is getting equipment to the dealers fast enough...
...Harriet, Alfred Hitchcock, Dragnet and This Is Your Life. Revue Productions Inc., one of M.C.A.'s subsidiaries, is Hollywood's biggest producer of TV films, accounts for an estimated 25% of all television films. Another subsidiary, Management Corp. of America, bought Paramount's pre-1948 movie backlog several weeks ago for $50 million and will distribute the films to television...
...between the movies and TV suffered its Dienbienphu last week. Paramount Pictures Corp., last of the big moviemakers to hold out, finally surrendered, sold its backlog of 750 pre-1948 films to TV. The price: a handsome $50 million. Soon to visit the televiewer at home, courtesy of Management Corp. of America (and numberless sponsors), are such Paramount standouts as Going My Way, This Gun for Hire, The Lost Weekend, all the Mae West films, the Hope-Crosby-Lamour "Road" shows; and Cecil B. de Mille's Cleopatra, Unconquered and Union Pacific...