Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the first adbearing issue of Look turned up with 10⅛ pages (some $37,000 worth) from Chesterfield, Dodge, Universal Pictures, Sal Hepatica, Kleenex, Feen-a-mint, other medicinals & knickknacks. Ned Doyle's crew is concentrating on the 1938 schedules, since Look will guarantee 2,000,000 circulation effective May 10, raise its full-page, onetime, one-color rate...
...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 Feb. 24, shot 80,000 feet of film. Only a few hundred feet were used...
...fashioned monster. She has six 12-cylinder, 890 h.p., water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engines, has 161-ft. wing spread-wider than any U. S. air-plane-but she cruises at only 142 m.p.h. Two years ago, she was anchored in Pensacola Bay while her crew was ashore, capsized during a squall, was salvaged with difficulty, flown home in chagrin...
Last week, however, the ancient, lumbering Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, recently rebuilt, taxied nearly two miles on the sea off Port Lyautey, Morocco, finally got into the air, remained there with its crew of six under veteran Pilot Henri Guillaumet until it had reached Maceio, Brazil, a nonstop seaplane flight 154 miles longer than the record of 3,281 miles, established by Lieut. Commander Knefler McGinnis between Cristobal Harbor, C. Z. and San Francisco Bay in October...
...ropes were cast off. The traditional sailing hour of the ship, 11 a. m.. passed into afternoon before puzzled passengers were told that "departure had been delayed" until 4 p. m., then 6:15 p. m. Mystified, passengers watched 99 of the 206 crew, mostly Chinese, their belongings on their backs, shuffle off the ship, followed by manicurist, barber and orchestra. Finally they were told the reason and 78 of 90 passengers of the President Jackson were politely asked to pack up and debark. Only the first twelve who had booked passages would be allowed to sail. The indignant...