Word: recouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large private fortune with which, four years ago, he started cinemanufacture, Howard Hughes now has less. Whether he will be able to recoup on this picture depends in part on whether he can convince censorship boards in the seven States* that have them that he has a right to show it. The Hays organization warned Howard Hughes not to make Scarface. When the original version was completed six months ago, the Hays organization demanded several changes, notably a conclusion in which Tony was captured, tried, convicted, hung. When the changes had been made and the picture retitled The Shame...
...robust but lately pale president of Electric Auto-Lite Co. A hard-working businessman, Mr. Miniger was caught in the swirl of real estate and banking developments by the boom, found himself a round $5,000,000 poorer when Toledo was forced to take stock of itself. Now, to recoup losses, he is working harder than ever. Automobile accessory business curtailed. Auto-Lite is making $1 electric clocks, selling them in large lots to chainstores. All the money "lost" in all failed banks in the U. S. in 1931 will be less than the resources...
...upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses, and I made the mistake of trying to hurry a musical show. It can't be done. The trouble with the musical show business is that it takes $200.000 or $250,000 to stage a show and if it does not succeed, you are out of luck...
...attempt to sell Jordans. In return for this, the Brotherhood has been granted an option on 30,000 shares of Jordan at $10 during the next five years.* Hence, if enough Jordans are sold and if Jordan shares go up, the Brotherhood will stand to make a profit and recoup its losses of former years...
...York last week went the lot of them, where Messrs. Hackenbruch, Rosenbaum & Goldschmidt hope to recoup their five millions. As a starter they sold six pieces to the Cleveland Museum of Art, invited Cleveland's museum director plump, polite little William M. Milliken, to lecture on the exhibit's opening day as chief customer...