Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a motion picture studio set after being used for one big picture is revamped for a lesser one. In London last week a new cinema company, World Studio Center, Ltd., announced it would use the same set not for many pictures, but for six versions of the original, each in a different language, each made by a different company. Through this cooperation of foreign producers, World Studio hopes to cut its costs 30%, successfully to fight U. S.-made films...
...These are harsh words, Sir Henri," said, last week, the U. S. petroleum industry...
...publicly, however, was this sentiment expressed, for both last week and this week oil men were gathered in convention at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, where they discussed production, restricted production, overproduction and other topics conventional to oil conventions. They also discussed prospects of appointing some outstanding personage as Oil Tsar. One such personage, for example, would be Calvin Coolidge, onetime (1923-29) U. S. President, now occupationless...
...last week, pausing in Manhattan en route to Chicago, Sir Henri had said to newsgatherers: "We will continue to sell and meet competition in the States or wherever it arises. We never have compromised and we never will. . . . We create no price wars but we are able to, and will, meet all price competition. Our companies fear no one, not even American competition, and there will be no compromise...
...done? . . . My advice is: Let us create 'an association of cooperation' on the basis of possibility of permanent production with the assistance of such distributing organizations as are willing to cooperate, and do not let us worry about those who will not do so." U. S. oilmen, pondering this last pearl of wisdom from the Shell, wondered how much of Sir Henri's U. S. activity was designed to strengthen his international position...