Word: costs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese had retreated to a new line, strongly entrenched and fortified regardless of cost, and although the Japanese this week made a short advance west of Shanghai, crossing Soochow Creek under a smoke screen and strongly resisted by the Chinese, all indications favored weeks more of Shanghai warfare in such close quarters that every day Japan risked an incident which would plunge her into fighting with one or another Great Power. It was this which made the 45 sq. mi. taken at Shanghai last week more desperately important than 1,980 sq. mi. quietly taken by Japanese forces pressing down...
...American Federation of Labor's American Federationist said in its issue of September 1935 that the Bedaux system "stripped of its pseudo-technical verbiage, is nothing more nor less than a method of forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest possible cost in wages." Next for Charles & Fern Bedaux a unique pleasure was in store-the abdicated King of England married Mrs. Simpson in their chateau in France (TIME, June 14). Later the honeymooning Duke and Duchess stayed at the Bedaux chateau in Hungary. And this week Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux landed in Manhattan charged...
...Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe, with the detailed perfection of one of Meissonier's Napoleonic battle-scenes. Aside from being a little dull, the picture has only one major fault. Apparently Producer Bernard Hyman overlooked the fact that if one of the characters...
...rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving...
...Plow that Broke the Plains for $12,000 to enter the U. S. in the documentary film field, then had to get out and distribute it to independent exhibitors, the big companies having turned thumbs down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came the disastrous flood of last winter. Lorentz and his crew stayed in the flood area until...