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...length black and white film is only around $63,000 v. $900.000 in the U.S. And, says Nagata: "By showing the Japanese countryside in all its beauty, we can attract tourists and more dollars"-as well as stimulate U.S. interest in Japanese houses, furniture, pottery, etc. But the biggest payoff would be political. The worst blight on Japan's movie industry is still the glut of pro-Communist films financed by left-wing unions, the Japanese Communist Party. Red China and Russia (which often buy them for cash in advance). Nagata thinks that if the U.S. market proves profitable...
...With the payoff completed, the grateful ranchers decided to honor Harrell. Feedman Harrell, who had lost 40 Ibs. sweating out the payments, would not say just how much the disease had cost him or how it would affect his company, but he admitted that the payment ran "into the millions." Said a small rancher at the party last week: "He didn't have to do anything. He could have told us to go to hell...
...Payoff in Manhattan. Last week Prospector Pick went to Manhattan to see about selling his mine. There he sat down with Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp., who has been busily scouting the Colorado plateau, picking up uranium claims in hopes of putting together a major new combine of uranium companies. After several days of dickering, Pick sold his mine to Odium's Atlas Corp. for a whopping...
...problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach part-time at three nearby universities: CalTech. U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. For the final payoff, a corps of 1,000 engineers will be called in to translate the theory into practical missiles systems, e.g., long-range rockets with infallible electronic brains to guide them to targets thousands of miles away...
...Payoff. With the B-47 and B-5 and its KC-97 program, Boeing is in the best shape ever. This year, sales will reach the $1 billion mark, and profits will probably hit $31 million, 48% more than the peak war years. This spring Boeing's 14,419 stockholders got the added dividend of a two-for-one stock split...