Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Risks? The Army & Navy were told what they already knew: the 14 major plane companies, which had expanded enough to build 96,000 planes in 1944, had been forced to contract to a production of only 1.330 military planes last year. The industry, which had not been able to cut its overhead accordingly, could not survive without larger orders. Commercial orders have passed their peak and by next year the airlines may have just about all the planes they will need for a long time. The Army & Navy had little to offer but sympathy. Present budget schedules, which will probably...
...This is a funny business. It takes us three weeks to build it, they use it for three hours, and we tear it down in three days...
...build this thing again if we had another show like that." George said he watched the four war leaders get their degrees from a comfortable vantage point in Sover Hall, and was much impressed by the smoothness with which things went...
Great Expectations. Trade, which once followed the flag, now follows the films. And Rank is, in effect, Britain's chosen instrument to build an industry able to compete with Hollywood in the world market-and so get Britain some of the dollars she desperately needs. He has made an amazing start. In ten years he has changed the British movie industry, once compounded of "concupiscence, chicanery and confusion," into a powerful monopolistic instrument, and fashioned a new economic empire. As powerful as any film enterprise in the world, his empire comprises over 60% of Britain's theaters...
...distributor for his movies. Since then, Rank has made deals with Universal-International and Robert R. Young's Eagle-Lion (TIME, Dec. 10, 1945) to distribute at least 19 Rank films a year in the U.S. And this week he announced plans to buy or build theaters in 50 big U.S. cities, as "show windows for British films." Rank has made certain that a good picture will get distributed, a guarantee British pictures never had before...