Word: jackpot
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...sales as old markets decline. It spent $38 million on research last year, will dedicate a new $30 million research center at Wilmington next month. "It took us ten years and $27 million to bring nylon to the production stage," says Greenewalt. "But for every nylon that hits the jackpot, there are 20 other gambles that fail to pay off. If we could not afford to carry the 19 failures, we would probably miss the nylon...
...that moment sharing a chicken luncheon with his father and father-in-law in a working-class apartment in the dusty, dirty Batignolles district above the Gare St. Lazare, Paul Colin was not aware that he had captured the year's literary jackpot. Novelist Colin, a thin, retiring young man, was living on unemployment relief...
...Jackpot (20th Century-Fox) light-heartedly examines one of the minor problems of U.S. life: what happens when a man wins $24,000 in prizes on a radio giveaway show. Until his "lucky" night, James Stewart is a happily married junior executive in a small-town department store. His only infidelity to his wife (Barbara Hale) and two un-Hollywooden children (Natalie Wood and Tommy Rettig) has been an occasional daydream about getting away from it all and taking a trip to the North Pole...
Then he hits the jackpot. As his front lawn is piled high with cartons of soup, dressed beef, a grand piano, fruit trees and ponies, as a feline portrait painter (Patricia Medina) and a lacy interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) move in on him, Stewart plunges into a glassy-eyed nightmare that costs him his job, threatens his marriage, gets him clapped into jail...
...John McNulty, but Scripters Phoebe and Henry Ephron seem to have leaned more heavily on the comic strip Blondie for their family sequences, and on Damon Runyan for an episode with a Chicago gangster. Director Walter Lang helps out the dialogue with pratfalls and horseplay, but what keeps Jackpot moving briskly to its happy ending is the ingratiating acting of Jimmy Stewart...