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...Chicago's Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures, valves) stepped into the aviation industry by buying Hydro-Aire, Inc. of Burbank, Calif, (aircraft valves, filters) for $4,000,000, expects to put $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 into expanding its new subsidiary...
...studio had made a similar bid for TV's hand. But there could be no doubt that Hollywood and TV were cuddling up a little closer all along the line. NBC admitted that its negotiations for a 49-acre site in Burbank, Calif, were not aimed merely at long-term "insurance," as it had long insisted, but to clear the way for the building of a huge TV center right on the moviemakers' home grounds. And when NBC also hired Henry Ginsberg, Paramount's former production boss, as a "general consultant," Hollywood had a hunch that...
...Angeles movie attendance was down 30%, and 134 Southern California movie houses have closed in the past two years. ¶At Burbank, Warner was negotiating the sale of 30 acres to NBC for a television center; CBS was already working on a center in Los Angeles at a cost of $35 million...
They read telegrams from Luther Burbank, General Douglas MacArthur (U.S. Army ret.), ("World Trees never die...") Lippold ("... busy installing plumbing in lounge of Radio City Music Hall...") and Lassie ("Sorry I can't be there to see if stainless steel is really stainless...
Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...