Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bros, and Fox are the vitaphone and movietone processes, now installed in about 1,000 theatres. Warner Bros., further clinched its lead in the "talkies," last month, by securing an exhibition outlet, buying Stanley Co.'s 255 theatres. Latest earnings figures follow: Paramount (9 months ending Sept. 30) $5,974,000; Loew's (40 weeks ending June 3) $6,377,000; Warner Bros, (quarter ending Nov. 30, estimated) $2,900,000; Fox Film Corp (9 months ending Sept...
...dollars to the small doctor who called him into consultation. Fee-splitting in the U. S. "has grown to alarming proportions." It results, stated Dr. Hartwell categorically, "in two evils: 1) the selection by the family physician of a specialist who will pay the rebate, which may readily lead to the employing of a less qualified man than would otherwise be obtained; 2) an increased charge by the specialist to cover the unacknowledged rebate. It is a secret understanding between two professional men which they dare not bring into the open." To such rebuke Dr. Hartwell's Manhattan colleagues...
...Campbell's farms (in Montana) are vast and profitable because he uses machinery almost exclusively for planting, cultivating and harvesting. The Russians want him to put his system to work on 10,000,000 acres of wheat and flax land. His project may lead to the purchase of $100,000,000 worth of U. S. farm machinery. The Russians also want Mr. Campbell to spend three months each year with them. On that invitation he was not determined before he sailed from Manhattan...
...Higher than all but two Manhattan skyscrapers; the Woolworth Building (792 ft.); the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building (700 ft . ) . †To keep away air, prevent rust. Such paint is an economical product of so-called red lead (minium, Ph.O...
Running up a winning lead in the last five minutes of play, the M. I. T. basketball team turned back the University quintet by a 29 to 23 score on Saturday night. This defeat, the first for the Crimson five this season, marked the first Tech victory over Harvard in five years...