Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nagata believes that there should be a U.S. market for three to five topnotch Japanese films a year, and that each should gross $1,000,000. For Japanese moviemakers, this would mean big profits, since their costs are low. Top salaries for stars are about $11,000 a film, extras make 80? a day, and the average cost of a full-length black and white film is only around $63,000 v. $900.000 in the U.S. And, says Nagata: "By showing the Japanese countryside in all its beauty, we can attract tourists and more dollars"-as well as stimulate...
...other two forums will be "How Should the U.N. Charter Be Revised?" with Ernest Gross and Norman Cousins, December 10; and a two-day discussion March 18 and 19 on Arab-Israel problems with Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and Abdul Rashid, Lebanon delegate...
...Corporation granted a concession in that vote. All the points save one asked by counsel Dodge were granted. The Arnold Professor was secure in his control of Arboretum affairs and his direct responsibility to the Corporation. As an administrator he might be fired on grounds less rigorous than "gross misconduct", but his tenure as a professor was guaranteed by his appointment to a Dendrology chair. There were clear assurances that Arboretum funds would be devoted primarily to Arboretum assets, and those assets, and those assets would be segregated and identified wherever they were. The Bailey Plan would not be applied...
...meaning. For within the USSR lies an empire as diverse and far-flung as anything the pre-Marxian world could assemble. The Formation of the Soviet Union, by Richard Pipes of the Russian Research Center, is a study of this empire in the making. Along with the gross anatomy of acquisition, Pipes combines a more rewarding discussion of the physiology of the empire, tracing the course of the troublesome nationality controversies that still disturb Soviet planners...
...Last week the Government reported the figure at 3,099,000, virtually unchanged for three months straight. Industrial production, which has also held steady for the past few months, never dropped more than 10% and stayed well above the 1949 level. At the "depth" of the recession, gross national product was at an annual rate of $356 billion, only $9 billion below the alltime high of 1953 and $99 billion above the 1949 level...