Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...universities, Sir Walter charges, are trying to renounce their responsibility for the education of youth. Philosopher C.E.M. Joad, discussing The Crisis in the New Statesman and Nation, satirizes the university attitude: "You want an atom bomb? Right! We will make it for you. But we really can't concern ourselves with the use to which you propose to put it . . . You want a cathedral? Right! The architectural department will tell you how to build it. But whether you should worship in it or keep pigs in it is a question which falls outside our province...
Heavy Load. Investors liked the idea; they could get their money out at any time at the current value of their shares. Securities salesmen liked it even more; the handsome 7½% commission gave them three to four times the profit they could make by handling individual securities. Other brokers were quick to catch on, and soon M.I.T. had some imitators...
...parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made him a longtime fixture atop the annual list of U.S. big income-earners. (He now gets 7%.) He has earned his pay not so much for making good pictures as for picking good men for the job and keeping an eye on them. Until his death in 1936, Producer Irving Thalberg gave M-G-M its creative spark. After that, quality sagged, but last year-when the wartime movie boom had clearly ended-L.B. brought...
...month's end, the new company's initial fund of $10 million should be ready for loans to qualified producers of "A"' films. The conditions: a rotating committee of exhibitors will pass on stories, casts and budgets to make sure that they beat in tune with "the pulse of the public" as felt at the box office. Even if some studios do not need financing, they may get the company's advice free...
...Oliver Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that's wot he likes . . . It's humane too, gen'lmen, acause, even if they...