Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paramount objection to a plan so extensive in its scope is likely to be the cost. To build the first unit on the DeWolf Street frontage, as the report suggests, instead of on the vacant lot behind Gore, would involve the demolition of almost a block of houses. This would add something to the expense but the advantage of the project seem to outweigh any expenditure incurred by tearing down a few frame and brick structures. Furthermore, while the report stipulates the purchase of the plot bounded by the Smith Halls, Dunster, Boylston, and Mt. Auburn Streets, this acquisition...
...from active management meant giving up financial control of Durant or any other motor company. Dealers, friends, etc., recalled that William Crapo Durant had only recently bought full control of Locomobile Co. of America, that only last week he had bought a large, but not quite controlling interest in Paramount Cab Manufacturing...
...that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would be assured by transference of the festivity to an up-to-date Boston ballroom. The class officers could petition for such a radical change of the character...
...Bros, and Fox are the vitaphone and movietone processes, now installed in about 1,000 theatres. Warner Bros., further clinched its lead in the "talkies," last month, by securing an exhibition outlet, buying Stanley Co.'s 255 theatres. Latest earnings figures follow: Paramount (9 months ending Sept. 30) $5,974,000; Loew's (40 weeks ending June 3) $6,377,000; Warner Bros, (quarter ending Nov. 30, estimated) $2,900,000; Fox Film Corp (9 months ending Sept...
...size with Zukor's Paramount building may be the projected William Fox's Vox Theatres Corp. building, to be erected at an anticipated cost of $10,000,000 on Broadway at 47th Street...