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Small Beginnings. What helped Tele King's remarkable performance was the know-how which Russian-born Louis Pokrass had developed in two previous careers. As a garment cutter in Manhattan's fiercely competitive dress industry, he had learned the importance of unit costs, and how they could be...
In one year, the number of television sponsors had soared from 680 to 2,316, boasted Du Mont's TV network General Manager Chris Whitting. Said he: "Our network tripled its billing in 1949, grossing in excess of $3,000,000." Beefy Harry Bannister, general manager of Detroit'...
Straight-shooting Movie Cowboy Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd was beginning to look like the biggest moneymaking star in television. In Hollywood, Boyd's managers boasted that 54 Hopalong pictures were grossing $1,000,000 a year on TV. Boyd's take: $150,000 a year-not counting what...
By World War II, his small, thriving Hallicrafters (named half for himself and half for craftsmanship) was grossing nearly $2,000,000 a year, and was primed to turn out fine high-frequency equipment for the Government. In all, Hallicrafters did $150 million of war contract work. After the war...
The "Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population...