Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwestern's jitters followed them on to the playing field. They fumbled three times. The first fumble cost them, a safety. Minnesota turned the other two into touchdowns. That brought the score to 16-0. Northwestern's coach Bob Voigts chewed gum a mile a minute on the bench...
...looked as if Crosby and Vacuum Foods might have found a tax loophole which permitted 1) small companies to get big-time radio stars at comparatively small cost, and 2) big-time stars to keep much more of their income by making it in stock profits, taxable as a long-term capital gain (maximum 25%) instead of income (maximum 77%). In effect, if the stock should rise in value-thanks to Crosby's radio plugging-and Crosby should sell his shares, the profits were expected to be taxed as capital gain. (Outsiders were already offering $7 a share...
...wardrobe cost alone for 20th Century-Fox's Prince of Foxes hit $275,000 -or about nine times what it took to pro duce both Open City and Shoeshine...
Hollywood people explained that they were putting blocked lire to work. Prince of Foxes, which was being filmed in Florence, Venice, Siena and Rome - and using thousands of extras - would cost $3,000,000 (half of it in U.S. dollars). Anywhere else, according to Producer Darryl Zanuck, it would cost $10,000,000. Zanuck said that he would not "stoop to sweatshop practices . . . We are not in Italy . . . to cash in on another country's depressed condition...
...Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman also has a newspaperman's dislike of office whistlers. He will bolt from his chair, at the cost of precious seconds, to bawl out a whistling copy...