Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.F.L.'s economist, Nelson Cruikshank, was even blunter. Cruikshank thought the practice of retaining earnings for capital investment rank injustice. Snapped Cruikshank: "Taxation by corporation without representation. Through prices paid for consumer goods, buyers are providing capital for industries over which they have no control and from which they receive no dividends...
Ryan's 45,000 rank & file, who had disregarded a previous agreement which Ryan had made, accepted the terms by an overwhelming vote. Some 250 ships in ports from Maine to Virginia, tied up for 18 days at an estimated loss of $30,000,000 a day in New York City alone, began to move. Longshoremen began loading some $36,000,000 worth of piled-up Marshall Plan cargoes...
...father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...
This week Rank's Religious Films Ltd. unveiled a new production called Belshazzar's Feast, and a new star - the Rt. Rev. Christopher Maude Chavasse, bishop of Rochester. The film opens with a shot of the bishop preaching. As the sermon unfolds, screen stills dramatize the story -from the feast, through the handwriting on the wall, to Daniel's denunciation...
Belshazzar is an experiment which Rank thought up himself: a 15-minute illustrated sermon designed as a shot in the arm for congregations being slowly droned to death by uninspired parsons. If it is a success, it will be followed by other shorts, starring distinguished preachers...