Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain Jean François Hardy. Hoping to attract attention to the real qualities of his lemon-wood masterpieces. Professor Mailfert deliberately admitted that he had not only invented Cabinetmaker Hardy, but during the past five years had kept a factory of 200 workmen busy turning out the entire product of the "Loire School." Only foreign decorators, he insisted, had been gullible enough to buy his lemon wood...
Francis D. Moore '35, former president of the Lampoon, has composed much of the music. Moore's chief difficulty has been the composition of a waltz, but his final product is reported to be one of the better numbers yet written. Last year he, James Parton '34, cross-country captain, and Edward E. Stowell '34, the musically-inclined swimming star, worked on the score...
Perfection of this new technique of visible, audible journalism was one problem. How to sell the product against the ice-jam of cinema block-booking was another. Should TIME hand The March of Time over to one of the big distributing systems? Contrary to orthodox advice, TIME decided to take a chance on doing its own distributing through an "independent" distributor, First Division Exchanges, Inc. Vice President David L. Loew of Loew's Inc. broke the ice by being the first to contract for The March of Time for his chain. Other potent chains-Balaban & Katz, Poli-New England...
Producer Warner defended himself thus: "We have done nothing but conduct our business in a fair and honest manner. . . . We leased two other theatres in St. Louis suitable for first-run exhibition, and, in the ordinary course of business, solicited and acquired the right to exhibit the product of Paramount and RKO in addition to our own in these theatres...
Duesenbsrg, a Cord product, was back at the Show after a four-year absence with two monster-hooded custom jobs selling...