Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was the most sobering conclusion after three days of hearings held last week by the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. The committee five months ago asked Harvard's Jean Mayer to assemble a group of leading nutritionists and other experts to study thoroughly domestic and global food problems. Mayer's group of roughly 100 reported last week at unusual hearings split into two panels: one group of Senators, headed by Committee Chairman George McGovern, heard the international report; another group, led by Democrat Walter Mondale of Minnesota, listened to the domestic report...
...analyst of Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida oranges 89? v. 69?; a pound of Land O'Lakes butter...
...decided we would avoid the old Louis B. Mayer v. Irving Thalberg-style battles for power," says Evans. "We wanted to be like brothers." To post some fraternal boundaries, the men decided to split tangible rewards evenly. Both have the same amount of Paramount stock and make equal base salaries (a reported $250,000). It is hard, however, for two aggressive men not to covet the major credit for a success as gaudy as Paramount's. A recent 16-page advertising flyer-approved by Yablans -for new studio productions displays his photograph but fails to mention Evans...
EDWARD E. MAYER...
...length films produced in Hollywood. The trio sold out to the combine that became Paramount, and Goldfish teamed with two brothers named Selwyn to make "Goldwyn" pictures. He took the name with him when he was forced out of the concern in 1922- before it merged with Metro and Mayer to form perhaps the most famous movie name of all. "A self-made man may prefer a self-made name" was Judge Learned Hand's remark, after Goldwyn's former associates sought to restrain him legally from using it on his independent releases...