Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century also disapproved of the chaplaincy in the armed services. The clergy should serve as chaplains but "be paid by the church, wear a uniform or garb distinctive of the church, accept no military rank and, beyond their civilian patriotism, own no allegiance save that to which they are solemnly committed in their ordination vows...
Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank had stood his ground against his critics with all the solemn dignity of an elephant harried by terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...
...Rank's producing companies-all controlled by G.C.F.-were leaner than even his U.S. rivals had hoped. Hollywood had guessed that he had lost money on such prestige pictures as Caesar and Cleopatra. But they had not suspected, as the books showed, that the loss in 1944 through 1946 had been a thumping ?2.2 million. The company's other interests had pulled it into the black in 1944 and 1945, but last year the net loss...
...entertain children as their elders; and if the children are well pleased, those who take them to the theater are, as a rule, nicely taken care of too-which can rarely be said of the reverse process. An excellent movie for children is the Australian-made Bush Christmas (Rank; Universal-International). A passable one is the American-made Thunder in the Valley (20th Century...
...That a faculty committee delve into the workload problem with an eye toward setting up a standard defining the normal work-load for each staff rank...