Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, explained old President Laredo Bru, will leave Cuba with a $9,400,000 deficit, necessitating new taxes. The President proposed a tax of 1? a gallon on exported molasses, to bring in $1,600,000 yearly, a 5% tax on the gross product of mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested...
...conceived and built this contraption was Wallace Andrews, one of John Davison Rockefeller's associates. Mr. Andrews' coal pipeline was only one product of his fertile imagination. A popular dandy with a flair for equipage and flowered vests, in 1890 he organized Manhattan's first ice manufacturing company. Before that he had started to pipe live steam underground to supply Manhattan buildings with heat. Oddly, the successful steam idea was ridiculed even more than the coal dream, which came to naught. Mr. Andrews burned to death in a fire that leveled his Fifth Avenue mansion...
...them a constant, steady, measurable market for all the films they make. Independents retort that this dominance forces them to all sorts of evils like double-feature billing and Bank Nights. "Why do we have double features? Because the big boys wanted their theatres to use up the entire product of the studios so we'd have to take everything second-hand," explains Al Steffes bitterly. He admits that the independents had a share in building up Bank Night but asserts: "We were getting such rotten pictures that we had to do something to get people into the houses...
...Galahad (Warner). Prizefight pictures, once a staple product of the cinema industry, have been out of fashion since The Prizefighter and the Lady. First of its sort since the resounding failure of that venture in 1933. Kid Galahad, adapted from a realistic Saturday Evening Post story by Francis Wallace, improves on the old formula by concerning itself less with the ring prowess of its hero, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) than with the grimy background of the fight industry as exemplified by his manager, Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson). Nicknamed Kid Galahad when, as an unsophisticated bellhop, he knocks...
...Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands Cheer, Tish, Bright Girl, Pride and Prejudice...