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...behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed shop), extras' pay upped 10% with a null minimum, overtime pay for players in the lower brackets, revision of the Call Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17 and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...prime number is one which is divisible only by itself and 1. Thus 7, 13, 17, and 23 are prime numbers. In Chicago, one Samuel I. Krieger covered 72 sheets of foolscap paper, wore six pencils to stubs. Last week he announced a 72-digit prime number, challenged the world to show him a bigger one. His number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prime | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...FOOLSCAP ROSE-Joseph Herges-heimer-Knopf ($2.50). Historical narrative of the rise & fall of Pennsylvania paper-manufacturers, 18th to 20th Centuries, made to seem significant by Author Hergesheimer's silkily persuasive style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Oct. 29, 1934 | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Labour together to make of them a Unity. Since his accession after the war, II Duce has repeatedly shouted to the populace below the advantages and tremendous possibilities of the Corporate State. Up to this year exactly three corporations have appeared, and those have had no existence off the foolscap on which their charters were printed. All power to the Corporate (Paper) State! POLLUX...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/10/1933 | See Source »

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