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Pioneers & Prices. If Bell & Howell's new camera fulfills the forecasts, the company will reach a peak that Chicago Movie Projectionist Donald H. Bell and Camera Repairman Albert S. Howell never dreamed of when they founded the company 50 years ago. Starting out with a $5,000 investment, they pioneered the movie industry's first reliable cameras and projectors, boasted that they "took the flick out of the flickers." Partner Bell sold out in 1921. Howell remained to advise a brisk new management, headed by the late J. H. McNabb, which made a stab at the amateur market...
...balancing Reciprocal Trade against American tariff claims, President Eisenhower has rejected eight of the ten tariff hikes recently proposed by the U.S. Tariff Commission. But as the chief of a projectionist political party, the President has never been able to establish the precise tariff standard needed to balance American allies against American domestic defense. The President's Foreign Trade Bill faced devastating Republican opposition in the House, barely passing without crippling amendments. Now, in the Upper Chamber, the bill is currently under the fire of sharpshooting projectionist Senators...
...good, he has served the Administration well in its battles with Republican isolationists of the inland states. On the whole, however, he has followed the Eastern Republican policy of talking internationalism while at the same time making cuts in foreign aid programs. Unlike Furcolo, he has followed projectionist principles in voting for import restrictions. Also, he has never supported extensive social and welfare legislation. In the last Congress, he voted to give the tidelands oil to the states, although Massachusetts would have benefited had the land remained under federal jurisdiction. Saltonstall also voted in favor of the Dixon-Yates power...
...course we would prefer a group to select a free date on our schedule," said Kadison, "but if a particular night is desired, we will relinquish it to them, helping in an advisory or supervisory capacity. We have contracted a projectionist and artist for the series, at substantially reduced rates. They have promised not to work with other groups in this area, but if an organization wishes us to manage a showing for them, we will lean them our facilities...
Paul Douglas plays the cloddish but honest fisherman husband with a good deal of earnestness, while Barbara Stanwyck gives one of her regulation good performances of a bad girl. As the cynical lover, Robert Ryan plays a motion-picture projectionist who speaks some grade-B movie dialogue, e.g., to Barbara: "Your husband's the salt of the earth, but he's not the right seasoning for you." Also on hand, in a minor role: shapely Marilyn Monroe. as a fish-cannery employee who bounces around in a succession of slacks, bathing suits and sweaters...