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...father was a samurai-one of those ferocious retainer-warriors who wore two swords sharp enough to shave with, who scorned money because their liege lords supplied them with houses, clothes, food, concubines, whatever else they needed...
...land was Pennsylvania Railroad's, 1939 net of $32,032.525, up 90% from 1938. Of this net, 57.9% came from 1939's last quarter when P. R. R. fed lustily on the steel boom. On the other hand, skinny Baltimore & Ohio's achievement was to shave its interest requirements $11,800,000, have only a $1,622,207 deficit in 1939, against...
...stopped the Wacosta with a shot across her bows. Only person who volunteered to talk German with the Nazi commander who came aboard was Professor Stork. After searching the Wacosta this officer said (Stork translation): "We are not so very barbarous, are we? Except that I do need a shave. . . . I'll see you in New York at a tea dance...
...from radio; last year, $3,845,000. Announced purpose of Broadcast Music, Inc.: to "uncover a wealth of new talent in the U. S. . . . and bring to the American public an abundance of enjoyable new music." It is more important as a threat: to make ASCAP shave its fees in radio's 1941 contract. If fees are revised, Broadcast Music, Inc., will be dissolved. If not, NAB members expect to hand ASCAP a shellacking by 1) refusing to plug any ASCAP songs, including those from movies, producer of much of today's hit music; 2) signing...
First effect of this uncertainty on Hollywood, which has already written off the German and Italian box offices, once 10% of its foreign gross, was a scaling down of costs on current productions. Director Wesley Ruggles, rather than shave his $2,000,000 budget for Arizona, shelved the picture. Other producers planned to whittle future budgets over $600,000 down to fit domestic box-office expectations. Since the greater part of production cost is in salaries and overhead, decreased budgets in the long run would inevitably mean tightening the belt in Hollywood's corporate scale of living...