Word: market
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearful of overstocking the market with the crusty growls and efficient gunplay of Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
First she gets milk from one street vendor, tortillas from another. Then she sets out for the market-La Merced, San Juan, Portales or San Lucas. In the days before inflation, she wandered happily up & down the aisles, stopping to buy 1.50 pesos of meat, 16 centavos of rice, 5 centavos of garlic, 40 centavos of tomatoes. There was a lot of good-natured bargaining, and a smart haggler could stretch el gasto to include a movie...
Antibes' money-minded Mayor Jean Pastour, who despised Picasso's work but recognized its market value, had raised the admission price to the castle from five to 30 francs. Last week's visitors got their 30 francs' worth: they found 65-year-old Picasso himself pacing before his pictures, looking for all the world like an aging lifeguard...
...baby, Globe Aircraft Corp. grew fast. In three war years it built $18.5 million worth of trainer planes for the Army. Its first plant was a converted barn near Fort Worth. At war's end, Globe felt strong enough to venture into the peacetime market with a small civilian plane, the Swift. It floated a $1.5 million stock issue, at $10 a share, to help finance it. Nine months ago, when the small-plane market hit stormy weather. Globe crashed...
Icebreaker. With a proud blare of horns, Packard Motor Car Co. last week drove out its new cars, thus became the first motormaker to put 1948 models on the market. The new models were radically different from the '47; gone was the distinctive Packard hood, the company's trademark for more than 40 years. Packards now have rounded hoods and wide, square bodies, forecast by the '48 convertible model put out last spring. Although some models, which range in price from $2,125 to $4,668, will cost more than their predecessors, two of them will...