Word: price
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ancestors. Since then, the project has languished- partly because of opposition from Spain's rank-proud Committee of Grandees. Last week, however, the government defied the grandees and published a list of 97 out of 400 available Spanish-American titles. They were available, that is, for a price. Claimants whose proofs of lineage were accepted would have to pay up back succession taxes and service charges ranging from 140,000 pesetas ($12,785) for dukes down to a mere 60,000 ($5,479) for barons...
Network televisers, regarded by the moviemakers as dangerous rivals, complain that they cannot afford Hollywood's price for anything better than westerns and ancient grade B's. Independent station WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, has been solving the problem by importing good movies; last year, it bought from Sir Alexander Korda the rights to 24 British films. Now that the last Korda movies are being televised, WPIX is ready with a new 13-film package-a mixed bag of eleven English and two American hits of a decade...
Last week, he made his second try with Breakfast With Burrows (Mon. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). His explanation of the seeming contradiction between time and title: "I get up late." The show comes from his "little apartment located high above the ceiling price" and, though it is a breakfast show, Burrows says: "I got no canary, there's nobody here named Tex, and there will be absolutely no cheerfulness." For his premiere, Burrows wound up with a big production number: a Burrows version of Hamlet, adapted for Hollywood ("Hamlet is upset because he doesn't like...
...Government's guaranteed price for uranium oxide (U2O4) in sufficient concentration is $3.50 a lb. The AEC also pays a $10,000 bonus for a really good find...
...prime commodities, copper and lead, which had taken a severe price shellacking as manufacturers lived off their inventories, made a comeback. Last week, as manufacturers began buying again, the price of both copper and lead rose 1? a lb. Nobody wanted to see them reach their recent inflated levels, but it was a healthy fact that the buyers' strike had stopped...