Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicholas M. Schenck, 74, one of Hollywood's last tycoons, quit the board of Loew's Inc., world's biggest moviemaker (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, M-G-M records). A Russian immigrant boy who peddled papers, Nick Schenck got in at the start of the picture business, fought his way to the presidency of Loew's in 1927. Last year, as earnings fell and the threat of a stockholders' proxy fight rose, Schenck moved upstairs to board chairman, later honorary chairman...
From Wilshire Boulevard to Wall Street, stockholders in the world's biggest moviemaking company chose up sides in the most colossal management fight in Hollywood history. The prize: control of Loew's Inc., which encompasses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, M-G-M Records, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, plus a $33 million funded debt. To head off the battle, Joseph Vogel, Loew's president of three weeks, flew from his Manhattan office to Hollywood, hustled through the first leg of a monthlong, no-martini inspection, promised to find out what was wrong...
...hope of rivaling Omaha and Chicago as centers of U.S. meat industry. Group of 35 civic boosters with 650 acres of land north of city have swung one deal for Armour & Co. to build estimated $20 million slaughterhouse and packing plant on property, another for Chicago's Oscar Mayer & Co. to build similar "multimilliondollar" plant...
...when Jacob Mayer of the Ruhr's Bochumer Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing...
...aptitude for the modern ballet-dance. Miss Kaye, who is today's formost exponent of dramatic roles, danced the part of Blanche Du Bois with all the neurotic and confused passion that the role embodies. Kriza was an excellent Stanley, primitive and animal-like in his simple world. Christine Mayer danced the faithful Stella and Scott Douglas the confused, well-intending Mitch...