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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was two thumping billions more than Congress voted even in 1936, when it handed out the two-billion-dollar Soldiers' Bonus. It brought the 75th Congress' spending total to $21,656,174,000 for all three sessions. It shot the net deficit for fiscal 1938 (forecast by the President last January as $1,088.129,600) up to $1,250,000,000. For fiscal 1939 it forecasted a deficit of at least $3,722,000,000. It meant that the national debt, which stood at $37,379,410,474 on June 1, had a good chance of passing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Accustomed to spending as much as $3,000,000 on a picture (Conquest, Marie Antoinette), M-G-M does so to give proper setting to Hollywood's greatest star roster, to produce most of Hollywood's best jobs, many of its stuffiest. Over last fiscal year, Loew's Inc. topped the cinemindustry with a net income of $14,426,062. In the coming season, MGM's schedule calls for 52 films, to include Northwest Passage, with Robert Taylor; The Women, with Norma Shearer; The Citadel, in production in England to satisfy the new British quota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Most self-conscious about problems like race prejudice and the fight for social justice are Warner Bros. But most of the $5,876,183 profit their company netted during its last fiscal year came from Dick Powell musicals, crime stories opportunely snatched from newspaper headlines, feathery comedies. With recent earnings over a million dollars less than those of the first six months of the last fiscal year, Warners have decided on a return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...thriller melodrama to the maturest. best-ordered and funniest comedy in cinema. For Columbia's good standing with the carriage trade, the men chiefly responsible are the team of Director Frank Capra and Writer Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, Lost Horizon). Last fiscal year (June 26) unpretentious Columbia cleared a profit of $1,317,771. Of next season's schedule of 40 films, high spot will probably be Director Capra's production of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize play, You Can't Take It With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...trust called First Income Trading Corp. was bought with money borrowed from Paine, Webber and repaid from First Income's own assets. 2) Control of Continental was bought from the Schroder bank by the same methods, but in an involved transaction between a) an Ontario enterprise known as Fiscal Management Company Limited, b) First Income, c) Continental, d) Schroder, e) Paine, Webber. 3) Control of Reynolds was bought from the Reynolds family and an associate with money from First Income, Continental, and (more than a third) from Reynolds itself. The control stocks of Continental and Reynolds, said Mr. Ballantine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Puzzle Started | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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