Word: lowerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together they launched a monthly paper, the Catholic Worker, and opened a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan's tough and dirty lower East Side, where anyone that came could be fed, clothed and sheltered as long as there was anything to share. Money would somehow be provided, they felt. When the first issue of the Worker came off the press, the editors had 92? amongst them...
...years Hollywood stalled off judgment day by consent decrees (which later lapsed) and legal shadow boxing in the lower courts. But last week, when the final decisions in four cases came in the Supreme Court, antitrust won almost all its points. The court...
...Tough. One important point was not quite decided. The lower court had carefully sidestepped the antitrust division's principal demand: force the producing companies to sell their theater holdings and divorce themselves entirely from film distribution. Instead the lower court merely ordered the companies to 1) stop buying theaters and 2) give independents a chance at first crack at topflight pictures by auctioning them off through competitive bidding. That order, said the Supreme Court, failed to strike at the core of the present cases. It sent the decision back to the lower court for a tougher ruling. To many...
...graveyard. Goldwyn, who has been fighting the booking practices of the big studios on his own, thought the independents had won all down the line. The court, said he, had "clearly recognized the monopoly exercised by the major companies in the first-run field." He was sure that the lower court would order divorcement. Moreover, added Sam, well aware of the closeness of many moviemakers, "it will be necessary to see that divorcement means more than just a transfer of circuit control from one set of hands to another...
...moviegoers, the decisions meant that they would get first-run pictures quicker in neighborhood houses at lower prices, and perhaps better movies. Without block booking as an automatic sales device for bad movies, Hollywood would have to jack up its standards all around...