Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after five years of preparation, 6½ months of shooting in Italy, nine months of editing in Hollywood, and a massive publicity campaign, M-G-M displayed a new version of Ben-Hur that is far and away the most expensive movie ever made-it cost $15 million to produce, $1,500,000 more than The Ten Commandments-and also one of the longest-3 hr. 37 min., not including a 15-minute intermission. Only Gone With the Wind (3 hr. 42 min.) and The Ten Commandments (3 hr. 39 min.) ran longer...
...costumes, at least 300 sets. One of them, the circus built for the chariot race in Rome's Cinecitta, was the largest ever made for any movie. It covered 18 acres, held 10,000 people and 40,000 tons of sand, took a year to complete, and cost $1,000,000. The race itself, which runs only nine minutes on the screen, ran three months before the cameras and cost another million. Three months before the shooting stopped, Production Manager Henry Henigson had a serious heart attack, and two weeks later Producer Sam Zimbalist had a fatal...
...cost of living will rise only slightly, probably 1½% on the BLS index, unless a steel settlement touches off an inflationary round of price increases...
...signed. Trying for a settlement, the eleven-company negotiating committee secretly submitted a better offer while negotiations were recessed. The new offer 1) raised the management proposal on wage increases and fringe benefits slightly (to 30? an hour by the companies' reckoning, spread over three years); 2) increased cost-of-living increases to a maximum of 8? v. 3? previously offered, and 3) proposed a two-man union and management committee to try to solve work-rule problems. If no agreement is reached by June 30, the questions will be submitted to arbitration...
AUTO PHONOGRAPH is being offered for 1960 Plymouths and De-Sotos. The 45-r.p.m. record player will cost $51.75, play 14 records for two hours...