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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program exactly to the solid (5 ft. 5 in., 130 Ibs.) Fields measure. The twelve-week series is Gracie's first in Britain, though she has starred in three U.S. radio series. The new show is aired three times a week (once live, twice transcribed) to the largest audience BBC can offer. The actual number of listeners is a secret, for BBC believes that publication of such figures "makes for jealousy between the stars...
...Numbers. American Telephone and Telegraph Co. will ask its stockholders to authorize the largest financing transaction in U.S. corporate history-a new issue of $354 million convertible debentures. With this sum, the funds raised by A.T. & T. for postwar expansion will reach a whopping $1,220 million...
...calls for money, his flock has answered by topping the figure. All told, his church members* gave $328,000 last year, more than was given by any other Presbyterian congregation in the U.S. Hollywood First Presbyterian claims two other records: more new members during the past five years, the largest Sunday School enrollment (3,783 children...
...thought was hardly comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...
Winged Finance. The aircraft slump, which forced some manufacturers into sidelines ranging from iceboxes to canoes and coffins, found Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in the automobile finance business. Lockheed's 95%-owned Pacific Finance Corp. of California, now the nation's fifth largest, reported a six months net of $395,546, more than...