Word: culver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts to about $145,000,000. The bit is leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies); a controlling interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., and a brewery, the largest in Texas. There is an exceedingly large but unknown amount of cash out of which Howard Hughes paid for his RKO stock. The net income of Hughes Tool, the parent company...
Past Master. In Culver City, Calif., seven firemen on a fire truck dashed to a manhole fire, stood by as their captain, Bob Lowry, put it out with...
After a spell at Culver Military Academy, he went to Princeton, "so I could be in the Triangle Club." During his first summer vacation from Princeton, he joined a summer stock company that included Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Mildred Natwick, and he directed one play. In his senior year, he won a scholarship to the Moscow Art Theater, where he sat for eight months at the feet of the great Stanislavsky...
Fred's readjustment with his wife is not so easy. Under the shock of war, she has developed that reliable old case of amnesia. She doesn't know Fred MacMurray from Fred Allen, and has married a rich planter (Roland Culver), who believes in letting sleeping memories lie. Before he can get her back, MacMurray, who hardly seems up to it, has to shoot holes in a couple of heavies; Ava has to get a bang on the head to restore her memory; and Culver has to turn decent and tell her not to worry about...
...Bergdorf Goodman, Chicago's Marshall Field and Dallas' Neiman-Marcus, put up $127,000 of the $277,000 capital for Irene, Inc., of which Irene owns 51% of the common stock. Irene promptly plumped down $75,-ooo for a 12,000-square-foot factory in Culver City (four minutes by car from her M-G-M studio headquarters), plus $11,000 more for remodeling. By October she expects to be turning out Irene-designed suits at $185 to $285, street and cocktail dresses at $125 to $265, and evening gowns at $250 to $450, to be sold exclusively...