Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Game was played in Detroit where Chicago had not won a hockey game in two years. Both fast, light teams, unpopular with crowds all winter because they lacked power to play "open" hockey against heavier opponents, Black Hawks and Red Wings started by playing even more cautiously than usual against each other. Seasoned Lionel Conacher, most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games...
...block booking to free themselves from the annoying stimulation of competition, and to sell pictures which neither pay the exhibitors nor please the public. A few excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions...
...campaign to end "block booking." To observers familiar with the cinema industry, the M. P. R. C.'s objections to block booking seemed a bad omen. Block booking is the system whereby exhibitors rent pictures in job lots instead of singly. It gives producers an outlet for their unpopular pictures; it gives exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made any headway in preventing it from becoming standard practice in the industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code...
Lured into politics by the excitement of the war and by his conviction, unpopular as it was articulate, that victory held nothing for Austria, Professor Schumpeter was appointed in 1915 to the Commission for the Socialization of industry in Berlin, on which he served until the socialist premier Renner called him to Vienna in 1918 to accept the Finance portfolio in the new coalition government being formed to replace that of the recently abdicated Emperor Charles...
Lured into politics by the excitement of the war and by his conviction, unpopular as it was articulate, that victory held nothing for Austria, Professor Schumpeter was appointed in 1915 to the Commission for the Socialization of industry in Berlin, on which he served until the socialist premier Renner called him to Vienna in 1918 to accept the Finance portfolio in the new coalition government being formed to replace that of the recently abdicated Emperor Charles...