Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Zukor made his prediction, cinema production, distribution and exhibition were largely separate. But a struggle for control of the industry was developing between producers and exhibitors. Such producers as Paramount got into exhibition; such exhibitors as Loew's got into production. With ever-increasing clamor during recent years, the chief trade organization of independent exhibitors, Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, has claimed that the result has been monopolization of the cinema industry to such an extent that independents could barely exist (TIME, June 7, 1937). The Department of Justice investigated, agreed. Hence last week...
...billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication of tuberculosis, venereal diseases and malaria, control of fatalities in pneumonia and cancer, promotion of mental hygiene and industrial hygiene; $145,000,000 for erecting hospitals with 360,000 extra beds, maintaining free beds, promoting medical research. The delegates heartily approved...
...very large areas in this country where the practice of medicine . . . is medieval." Manager West arose and barked: "I don't know whether the medical profession is any more proud of him [Cabot] than he is of the medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor Fishbein, vexed that Miss Roche had not consulted the potent A. M. A. in preparing her program: "I could tear to pieces . . . this program. . . . Medical care is not the most important...
...choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged; theatre patrons in any given community must take whatever films are handed to them; "there is no opportunity for new forms of artistic expression which are not approved by those in control of the major companies...
...States and Canada in the 1920s, then floated three stock issues and two bond issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved out of office and in last week's poker game this toppled tycoon sat quietly on whatever cards he may still hold...