Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city boys are more sophisticated than the rest, but they are also more prone to homesickness and restlessness. Director Loebbert, who trained for the priesthood, relies on such Boys Town institutions as a juvenile supreme court to cope with minor rule breakers...
...Henry S. Sturgis, vice president of the First National Bank of New York, chairman of the executive committee of the Erie Railroad and director of half a dozen corporations...
...ahead. Australian wool growers feared that high prices might eventually choke off their market. (In the U.S. high prices had already cut the sale of worsteds, and there seemed small hope of sizable price reductions as long as wool prices stayed up.) In San Antonio, F. Eugene Ackerman, executive director of the American Wool Council, warned U.S. textile men that synthetics might displace high-priced woolen fabrics...
There were a few encouraging signs. A small independent producer had just turned out a promising feature for $500,000. Called Obsession, it had been brought in under its budget by Director Edward Dmytryk, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten." The bigger producers, including Rank, had been making economies too, but insiders still thought that production costs were much too high. The titans were studying the lesson already learned (if not always practiced) by Hollywood: the only way out of the slump was to make better pictures for less money...
Members of WHRV elected William P. Raney '50 president of the Network for the coming year last night and named H. Eric Solomon '50 as business manager. Chosen for the station's other executive positions were Bradford S. Doane '50, production director, and Maurico M. Lynch, Jr. '50, program director...