Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood moved to protect its celluloid epics from the competition of epic news from Europe. Reported Variety last week: producers now add a clause to all contracts, permitting them to cancel the premiere of any super-picture, if peace breaks out in Europe as the picture is about to have a razzle-dazzle opening...
...immediately, and another 80,000 by year's end. This news was concealed in an optimistic release which chose to stress increased production of long-range bombers-Boeing B-29s and the new super-Liberator, the B32. But what the War Department had mainly done was to cancel C46 cargo-plane production at Higgins in New Orleans, and cutback P47 output...
Died. Charles Franklin Anderson, 69, U.S. Post Official (cancellation expert), who was sent to the South Pole with the second Byrd expedition in 1934, set up shop in an ice cave to cancel the stamps on the expedition's 100,000 letters; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...start of Gene Talmadge's last campaign for Governor, three local businessmen suggested that a favorable editorial policy would bring the paper an expensive ad for their candidate. Miss Edna told them they ought to have more gallantry toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising...
...year after the war, nearly 20 million war workers and servicemen will look for employment. Prices must be kept down, he argued, so that soaring costs will not cancel the people's savings before the flood of civilian goods takes the place of war production...