Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were located, each pill box, block house, tank trap or tank obstruction was shelled, then rushed by light tanks and infantry. One after one they were destroyed, the beleaguered German advance squads often blowing them up before scuttling back to their heavy forts. Behind them they left land mines which, when the French artillery did not find them in time blew up the advancing tanks. Also encountered were robot machine guns, operated electrically by remote control. Swarming through the Warndt Forest between Saarbrücken and Saarlautern, the French found the woods "full of destruction and traps...
Sales. The immediate blackout of theatres in France and England when War was declared automatically eliminated 40% of Hollywood's box-office income. Though some English theatres in outlying areas were already being reopened under emergency regulations and more were expected to follow, still in doubt were: 1) how current Hollywood pictures must be affected by Allied censorship, and 2) how war would affect the transmission of box-office receipts, some of which had not come from England last week...
First effect of this uncertainty on Hollywood, which has already written off the German and Italian box offices, once 10% of its foreign gross, was a scaling down of costs on current productions. Director Wesley Ruggles, rather than shave his $2,000,000 budget for Arizona, shelved the picture. Other producers planned to whittle future budgets over $600,000 down to fit domestic box-office expectations. Since the greater part of production cost is in salaries and overhead, decreased budgets in the long run would inevitably mean tightening the belt in Hollywood's corporate scale of living...
...appeal to patriotism that makes the eagle scream. By last week no capitalist had made public protest. But because the picture (possibly in an attempt to avoid the susceptibilities of warring union factions) shows the workers unorganized and misled by an outside agitator, organized labor's box-office pressure group, Film Audiences for Democracy, was last week threatening a boycott...
When Byron died of fever at Missolonghi, he left behind not only his great-lover reputation, but a plain, square, tin box with part of the evidence. In it were three dark red braids contributed by the "Maid of Athens," Theresa Macri and her sisters; a ringlet of Lady Oxford's, and several bundles of adoring letters from women who worshiped Byron, some of whom had never seen him. Most were wildly exclamatory, heavily underlined with pages blotted and blistered with tears. Byron did not answer all the letters. Even those he promised to destroy he kept, since...