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...stockholder needs to do now to get $6 a share for his stock (which two months ago would have brought only $2.87½) is turn his certificates in to the Irving Trust in New York. (Although Hughes's check was for $23,489,478, his ultimate cash outlay will be only $15,916,758, since he already owns 1,262,120 of RKO's 3,914,913" outstanding shares...
...frenzied tailoring process that must turn every undertaking into a 'smash hit.' " For its first production, Madam, Will You Walk, the Phoenix hired Broadway's Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, paid them $100 a week apiece. The play ran successfully for six weeks, after a capital outlay of $15,000. Next, Houghton and Hambleton put on Shakespeare's Coriolanus, with Cinemactor Robert Ryan (salary: $100 a week). Again, for $15,000, the Phoenix had a fine run. Golden Apple is a more ambitious show. It cost $75,000, but a similar production on Broadway would have...
With six Missouri River dams already built or abuilding, nearly $2 billion has been spent since 1944, when the Army Engineers and the Interior Department teamed up in the Pick-Sloan plan. Overall, the plan calls for an outlay of another $9 billion in the next 50 to 75 years, for a total of 137 dams, which would provide flood control and irrigation for 10 million acres of land in ten states, and have a capacity of 3,200,000 kw. The next dams, if Congress approves, are to be started at Glen Canyon and Bridge Canyon on the Colorado...
...land is not to be used for charitable purposes, taxes will be paid as usual. If Johnson does not buy back the land for $3,000,000 before the lease expires, the Knights will get full title. It was also a smart deal for Johnson: with a cash outlay of only $1,100,000, he will control a property appraised recently...
...such incentives are far better-and cheaper in the long run-than the only other alternative: the Government going into business on its own. During World War II, the U.S. Government put more than $16 billion into war plants; since 1950, thanks to the vigorous write-off policy, its outlay for such purposes (except for atomic energy installations) has been comparatively small...