Word: options
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first "places" was reported to be Paramount, which dropped her in 1937. But to the sudden autumnal flurry of studio offers, Cinemactress Dietrich, grateful to Producer Pasternak for giving her another chance when other producers would only take her out to supper, replied that her option belongs to daddy. Said she: "Joe Pasternak has first call on my services...
...rumored at the thester last night that if the play were a success, either actor producer Eddie Dowling or a representative of R.K.O. Radio Pictures would buy an option on it for sage or movie production...
This week the announcement came that Commodity Credit Corp. had made an arrangement with British buyers whereby $30-to-$40,000,000 would be given them to proceed with normal purchases. The tobacco would be held in the U. S. and the British would have an option to buy any time before July 1941. The markets then would be reopened on Tuesday...
Last week as the option deadline lapsed, the four stayed clam-silent. This meant that United might have to pay more for the six DC-4s it bought last fortnight. But it also meant that if President Patterson's hunch is sound, when the DC-4s are operating in 1941, United might bag the lion's share of transcontinental air traffic...
...news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass the tin cup, as it did to keep going in 1933-35. But this time the Metropolitan might well throw...