Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Film Quota. Vital to U. S. business was the interminable debate on France's film quota law, a law providing that only four foreign films (instead of seven, as now) may be imported into France for each French film produced. U. S. film men, when passage of the law seemed certain several weeks ago, threatened to withdraw all films from France at once. French exhibitors, knowing their patrons' preference for U. S. films, immediately protested. The quota law hung fire...
...questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June 17). As a creative writer, he is interested in all things vital, however irrelevant they may seem to the scheme of things orderly...
...will be preeminently the business man's journal of business news, vital and vivacious, informative and dynamic, with something American in its every characteristic. It will be keyed to the spirit of the new tempo in business...
...modern Canton includes about three miles of water front, 1,700 acres of land, many a pier, warehouse and factory. It includes also the short (32 miles) but vital Canton R. R., connecting Canton with Baltimore's trunk lines. But, though the importance of Canton increased with the years, the Baltimore & Ohio still failed to purchase...
...this feeling that he goes to the trouble of bringing his family back to Cambridge. Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...