Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Mortimer had shipped the collection to London, not only hoping for a readier market there but also tempted by Christie's low commission (7½%). Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
...number three blade is Dud Talbot who was shifted at the eleventh hour last year to race against Yale. He ends the six-foot-three block which extends from the number seven to three position. John Richards '40 is at the two oar and while still a bit ragged has exceptional endurance...
Obviously, the only solution at all practicable is cooperative action among the principle sellers and potential sellers of war material. This method has never been tried. In 1931 Britain, and in 1935, America, refused to cooperate. American indifference to world affairs has long been the chief stumbling block in the path of constructive peacemaking; and if this most recent demonstration of her vital position in the world has jolted public opinion but slightly out of its blind isolationism, it has been well worth while...
...other conventions, this year's plans for some 500 feature pictures, to cost some $150,000,000, were introduced with less noise, no less ballyhoo. By last week salesmen were visiting the nation's 16,558 exhibitors, talking up next season's shows. Under the block-booking blind-selling system of distribution to which the sprawling cinema industry is geared, they were all out to sell, in prescribed assortments, films not yet produced...
...Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate (prohibiting compulsory block booking and blind selling*), from reaching the floor of the House...