Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Plays' tiny poke had already shrunk to a mere $7,000. It was high time to go to the bank. Negotiations began with a bang. "Who," asked the Bank of America, "are you? And who is Henry Morgan?" After some fast talking, the bank was persuaded to lend $650,000. That left about $500,000 still to be found. Screen Plays wrote off about half of it in deferred salaries and studio overhead charges, sold a 50% interest in the picture to raise the rest (including $150,000 to be put up as additional security for the bank...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
...Guardian was shocked that Rank's privately owned G.C.F. "could make a heavy loss without any general shareholder of the public companies . . . knowing anything about it." Repeating the charge of Brendan Bracken's Financial Times that in taking over G.C.F., Odeon was getting a pig in a poke, the News Chronicle tartly observed that the pig was "a lanky beast of decidedly questionable value...
...another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...
...though investors had bought Texas Eastern shares at 67 times the price promoters had paid for their shares, they bought no pig in a poke. With contracts already signed to buy gas at an average cost of 7.6? per million cubic feet, and sell all it could deliver at an average price of 26.7?, Texas Eastern's backers confidently expect to gross $30 to $40 million a year. If they do, they expect that more than half will be operating profit...