Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost more than $7,000,000 to produce-and it may cost almost as much again to promote and distribute. If Sam's past performance (The Best Years of Our Lives, Guys and Dolls) is anything to go by, he will probably get his money back. But the customers will scarcely get their money's worth...
After leaving Columbia, Terrell wintered in perfume, summered in stock, with friends' money opened the famed Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse in 1939. During World War II he piloted transport planes until injured in a crash, then managed U.S.O. troupes through the South Pacific. In Manila once, he found no theater available, asked to use a tent. The Army said no; but the idea lingered...
...blow his horn open, and no man in the business blew it better. But Jonah's clarion trumpet call sounded too loud over the tinkle of cocktail conversation, and for most of his career he was never able to make it into the plush jazz caves where the money lies. Then in 1955 he had an offer to fill in at The Embers, reluctantly agreed to play with a mute, and quickly evolved the "good, happy style" that has brought the crowds running to him ever since...
...from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget, bringing the total appropriation for operating expenses to within only $6,000,000 of what Quesada asked. Chances for the revised bill's passage : excellent. The restoration gives Quesada virtually all he wanted, means that he will have the money to set up air controls, hire the men to man radar stations...
...John O. Ekblom, 64, on top of his $42,000 salary, for the crack job he did in pulling the company out of the red. To the directors' surprise, Ekblom turned down the bonus, saying that his salary "satisfies my needs and my appetite." He suggested that the money be used for incentive bonuses for Hupp's executives, who need it far more. Said Ekblom: "I want to focus some attention on the country's forgotten man-the corporation executive paid around $20,000 a year. After taxes and educating his children and perhaps one major illness...