Word: shoestringing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and...
Died. Myron Selznick, 45, Hollywood's heavy-jawed, hot-tempered, producer-squeezing, multimillionaire cinemactors' agent; of abdominal hemorrhages; in Santa Monica, Calif. Schoolboys Myron and David Selznick got $1,000-a-week allowances from their fabulous father Lewis, bankrupt jeweler who during the '20s ran a shoestring...
With plenty of big-name patrons, the organization has operated genteelly on a "normal" budget of about $1,000 a month. Of its claimed 10,000 members, only 4,500 are dues payers ($2 a year). Federal Union, Inc., as Board Chairman A. J. G. Priest once said, has "tried...
Then the depression dumped Marchant and Fridén into deep red ink, finally dumped Fridén right out. He went back to shoestring calculating, determined to invent a competing machine and at the same time avoid any patent fights. In one year flat he had it: with the...
RKO has stopped whistling in the dark room. The once-bust studio has two grade-B pictures, made on what Hollywood calls a shoestring, which are outgrossing nearly every A-picture in a boom year.