Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recorded Vladimir Horowitz concert and despaired at the periodic clunks of rejecting 78-r.p.m. records-"the most horrible sound man ever made." In 2½ years, he had compressed the playing time for six 78-r.p.m. records into the first 33⅓ microgroove disk and started a multimillion-dollar industry...
...ravenously devouring each other, while the mirror this time picks up the image of an attendant voyeur calmly chatting on the telephone. The work is by Britain's Francis Bacon, 59, currently being shown at Manhattan's Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. The new proud possessor is the multimillion-dollar Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, which already owns seven Bacons and cheerfully parted with an estimated $150,000 to buy this...
Broadway is so commercially minded, goes one prevailing myth, that it will not permit a playwright the creative right to fail. To judge by its seasonal multimillion-dollar losses, Broadway is about as uncommercial an enterprise as can be imagined, and the right to fail is honored more often than not. Ever since the success of Virginia Woolf in 1962, Edward Albee has exercised this right annually. Tiny Alice, The Ballad of the Sad Café, A Delicate Balance, Malcolm, Everything in the Garden, and now Box and Quotations from Mao Tse-tung represent the alarming deterioration of a formidable...
Both executives were a bit vague when it came to discussing what their multimillion-dollar handshake would produce. McColough noted that the merger "would provide a much broader base than we now enjoy." Said Lundell: "The merger would greatly enhance the future of C.I.T.'s growth program." Whatever its purpose, the sheer size of the deal is sure to interest the Federal Government, particularly since the Federal Trade Commission announced last July that it would look into the huge economic concentration brought about by conglomerate mergers...
...Internal Revenue Service probably does not know what to make of Bill Drake. How can he run a multimillion-dollar radio consulting service out of his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles? And that inflatable plastic armchair and the swimming pool in which it floats - are they taxable as luxuries or deductible as an executive suite...