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Universal-International Pictures was the first major Hollywood moviemaker to decide that the little 16-and 8-mm. movies shown in homes, schools and churches had big domestic moneymaking possibilities. Three months ago, Universal set up a subsidiary called United World Films Inc. and jumped into the little movie pond. Last week, after much splashing about, United World emerged as the pond's biggest frog...
...some $2,000,000, it bought Castle Films, top-ranking producer-distributor of 16-and 8-mm. "packages" (film sold outright for private use). In 1946, Castle sold about one million packages-seven times as many as any competitor-and made some $800,000 doing it. The deal gave United World not only 200 film subjects but 3,300 retail outlets, mostly camera shops and department stores. To keep Castle running under its own name as a division of United World, Founder-Owner Eugene W. Castle was signed up to a long-term contract at $40,000 a year...
...Wages. In 1938 he turned up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd...
...Hsin Mm Pao reporter unkindly noted that Chang Tao-fan looked up attentively as he heard the news of his voluntary gesture for democracy. The Assembly applauded the solution. The Gissimo beamed. On the parliamentary bookshelf, Robert moved over for Chiang...
Zipping over Dayton's Wright Field in a sleek, twin-boomed Black Widow night fighter, pilot J. W. McGuyrt reached for a new lever in his cluttered cockpit. He looked back at his passenger, and pulled. A telescopic gun tube exploded a 37-mm. charge and sent First Sergeant Lawrence Lambert, still strapped to his seat, whooshing upward out of the plane, 20 feet above the onrushing tail fins. Three seconds later a second explosion in the air snapped Lambert's safety belt and ripped the seat away. A third blast automatically opened his chute. After that...