Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Korda's London Film have been Britain's sprucest salesmen. Last week Gaumont British and Alexander Korda, proving that the British cinema industry is not entirely dormant, had two films apiece ready to join the U. S. Easter cinema parade. Of the four, the two less pretentious cost $450,000 each, represented the good homespun handiwork of which the British industry is capable when it is not making quota quickies or trying to imitate Hollywood's grand manner. The others were, important because they 1) cost about $1,000,000 each, and 2) showed it in varying...
...curves and fast ones; 2) a top-flight British cast; 3) Technicolor. Aside from that used in animated cartoons, most Technicolor is a prettifying process that sets great store on being called "unobtrusive." Lady X's Technicolor is consciously as obtrusive as possible, jumped on production cost to $1,2000,000. When the scene opens on a nasty London night, Technicolor sets the mood with blinking Bovril and Schweppe signs through a dank yellow fog. When Actor Laurence Olivier discovers a sprightly message daubed on his hotel-room mirror, the audience can see at a glance that...
...railroads. One of his dreams was to connect Key West with the mainland. He declared he would die in peace once his railroad stretched over the 140 miles of coral reefs to the most southerly U. S. city. Seven years, some 200 lives and $28,000,000 was the cost of building concrete viaducts across the keys, and in 1912, the year before Flagler died, his trains rumbled into Key West. In 1931 however, the road went into receivership, in 1935 the great Labor Day hurricane blew it to pieces. Last week Founder Flagler's dream was revived...
...Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected by layers of guttapercha, brass tape, jute yarn, galvanized iron...
...cables have worn out their hazards are many-earthquakes, marine worms, icebergs, anchors, wars, fishermen. Finding damaged cables, picking them up is a comparatively simple matter for modern instruments. To keep cables in repair, 30 maintenance ships, strategically placed around the seven seas, go on trouble location at a cost of $1,000 a day, help bring the average yearly cost of upkeep to $300 per mile of cable...