Word: needing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studios, producers were irked by a scarcity of minor players, the lesser folk of filmdom who eagerly side with Equity: who, unlike big-salaried stars, need protective organization. Sympathetic labor unions gave Equity aid. Off San Pedro, Los Angeles seaport, a cinema was being filmed aboard a lugger. Among the cinema sailors were non-Equity actors. The real sailors cast away their marlin-spikes, refused to work. Simultaneously the Pacific Seamen's Union informed Equity President Frank Gillmore that they would work no more in cinema until the conflict was over...
Like all such maneuvers, the Battle of Rancocas Creek, observers agreed, will be detailed to Congress next winter as an argument to show the need for increased appropriations for national defense...
West Virginia's Conley said: "We don't need modification...
...from Atlanta carrying one million dollars in cash. Nervous Tampa depositors, entering their banks, saw in tellers' cages great stacks of crisp, green, reassuring bills. Soon, by rail and motor, arrived an additional $4,000,000. "The banks," said Federal Reservist Taylor, "will have all the money they need...
...with a small, airplane-motored automobile priced around $250, to be shipped in a box which would serve also as its garage, linked this rumored "aero-car" with the Montgomery Ward story. General Motors offices belittled the story, said that with 30,000 G. M. dealers there was no need for mailorder distribution of General Motors products. Asked whether General Motors was planning a car of the type described, the reply was that General Motors had so many experimental projects, each productive of many rumors, that it could not even dignify with a denial every report that reached its ears...