Word: ince
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
Clean Sweep. In 1938, the antitrust division of the Department of Justice set out to end such tie-in sales. It filed suit against Paramount, Loew's Inc.(M-G-M), RKO, Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley...
Most prominent defendant was dapper, scholarly Dr. Lewis Hart Marks, 64, president of American Hyalsol and a $35,000-a-year vice president of Publicker Industries Inc., biggest U.S. producer of industrial alcohol. U.S.-born (New Orleans) and U.S.-educated (Tulane and Johns Hopkins), Dr. Marks did medical research in Germany for many years before he turned businessman...
...could speed things up. He held that it should not take months-as it often has-for CAB to make up its mind. Last week he got a chance to prove it. Up before CAB came one of the airlines' bitterest squabbles-the fight between Braniff Airways, Inc. and Pan American Airways Corp. for business in Latin America (TIME...
Then, in August, Great Britain slapped the 75% ad valorem tax on all U.S. films. The Loew-supported bottom fell out of Screen Plays, Inc. That night, trying to drown their sorrows in gin, the partners succeeded in refloating their enterprise on a tipsy wave of optimism. In four days of desperate rewriting, Screen Plays, Inc. shelled $339,000 off the picture's "nut," without sacrificing the essentials of the story. Loew agreed to stay in. In September, So This Is New York finally went into production-and came out $30,000 under the final budget. Even silent Stan...