Word: owned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dollars from Britain. A year after their marriage Faie and Bill Joyce went to England, and made the first of their international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production...
To Brooklyn and Back. Bill Joyce was working for a West Coast finance company when he decided to be his own boss. After a look at 100 different businesses, he picked shoes. He lined up pledges of $150,000 in venture capital to buy a small Brooklyn shoe factory, arrived...
With only $10 left in his pocket, Joyce sat up for six nights on a day coach back to Pasadena. There he borrowed $250 from his father, rented space above a drugstore, hired a $20-a-week seamstress, and began turning out cheap ($1), soft-soled rehearsal shoes for the...
...past year, prodded by the Department of Justice, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. and Paramount Pictures, Inc. have agreed to split their production-distribution operations and theater-owning functions into independent halves (TIME, May 17, 1948 et seq.). But the three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing...
Much of the picture's force comes from its flat-and often flatfooted-insistence on telling the story straight. Its dirty children, dilapidated porches and stuffy hall bedrooms are authentically grimy; its dialogue often catches the nagging overtones of everyday frustration and defeat. But its brightest achievement is the...