Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only allowed by his union to spray cob-webs in studio haunted houses, he's wise enough to know the immense exploitation value in an Academy Award. I'm not sure which came first in each case, but the Best Film of the Year has always been a terrific money-maker...
...Political pressure can only be equal to the amount of money spent, and here, the speaker said, labor groups do not have the resources of antagonistic groups...
...lumbering veteran (more than 200 movies since 1913) cinemactor; of a heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
Last year the radio industry took in more money and boasted more stations than ever before in history. But this look of ruddy health was a sorry illusion. Actually, radio's pulse was irregular and feeble; it was seeing TV spots before its eyes...
...dish out the facts of life?" NAB's Richard Doherty replied with some hard TV facts: an average TV station costs nearly as much each year to run ($221,000) as it does to build and equip (up to $350,000). This kind of money was far beyond the reach of the average radio station owner. *At week's end, as the delegates journeyed homeward, there was no sure cure in sight for the ailing patient...