Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubbard then returned twice to help produce Paramount's film "Gold" and Warner Brothers' "Adventures in Africa." The latter was filmed in the Kafue Flats of Northern Rhodesia, which is also the setting of her new book...
...plant in Smyrna, Del. (pop. 2,346), Farm Fertilizer Manufacturer Warner W. Price, Jr. decided to speak his piece to the Interstate Commerce Commission about the proposed 22% boost in railroad freight rates. Price got off a letter to the ICC opposing the increase, but he soon found that to get the ICC's full attention he would have to spread out letters like a farmer covering the north 40 with Price products. The ICC wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested...
...businessmen weighed the evidence last week, took note of the countermoving inflationary and deflationary forces, few saw any reason for pessimism about 1957's business prospects. Some predictions: ¶ Borg-Warner Chairman Roy Ingersoll, who is spending $26 million for expansion this year: "We have good reason to anticipate improvement in 1957 in many of the industries which Borg-Warner serves. Sales are on the upcurve in automotive and farm-equipment parts, chemicals, aviation components and oilfield tools." ¶General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely...
...Land (Jaguar; Warner). "Thuh East needs beef!" That's what the man says, but regrettably, in this as in most of his independent productions. Actor Alan Ladd is able to deliver almost nothing but corn. For a moment now and then the wide screen opens on the blond infinities of Kansas grassland, but then it quickly narrows focus to the usual picayune plot: hero in trouble, villain (Anthony Caruso) in black, redhead (Virginia Mayo) in stays, weakling (Edmond O'Brien) in his cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors...
...John W. Field, 42, treasurer of Warner Brothers Co., famed foundation-garment manufacturer (1956 sales: more than $36 million), was named president, succeeding his father John Field, 70, who will become chairman of the board. After graduating from Yale ('37), Field tried his hand at journalism, became national affairs editor of LIFE. In 1946 he yielded to family pleadings, returned to Warner...