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Getting the money was not so hard. Metropolitan, which has already sunk about $2 million in the dream and has the option on further financing, was impressed with Zeckendorf's hard-headed operating plans. The ten-story hotel, office, and professional buildings are expected to be self-sustaining. The rest of Bill's world of tomorrow will be let out at a basic moderate rent plus varying percentages of gross sales (e.g., 1% for food stores, 15% for millinery shops...
Some of them hope to last for a while with the support of the big studios with which they are allied. But Disney, who has a genius for running up costs, is an independent. He now owes about $4 million to banks, has $7.5 million sunk in current productions. His average shorts, which cost $60,000 to $65,000 to produce and over $25,000 for prints, advertising and distribution, gross only $75,000 to $90,000 over a five-year period. Unless some drastic adjustments are made, Donald, along with his cartoon cousins, might soon be a stuffed Duck...
Half a dozen other vessels were sunk, or beached to avert sinking; a third capital ship, the durable Jap Nagato, wallowed and sank. Nobody yet knew how many submarines were crushed. For a single bomb it was a dreadful toll...
...British were sunk in sentimentality and longing for the good old days that never were. At London's Mall concerts, the bands throbbed Rose-Marie, Alice Blue Gown and Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life. In nightclubs, heavily curtained against outside noise and austerity, singers crooned: She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor and Money Is the Root of All Evil...
...name, he said, was "Juke." He was a little 125-lb. fellow. His eyes were sunk back in his ash-colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...