Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last summer with the founding of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, headed by Nelson Rockefeller. Looking to the cinema as a potent field for propaganda Rockefeller established a Motion Picture Division. Wise choice to handle this division was hard-working Jock Whitney who has made his Long Island fortune speak Hollywood s language in two profitable ventures-Technicolor and Selznick International. In Hollywood it is chic to know Jock, who plays six-goal polo and owns a racing stable, a privilege to do business with...
...That Night in Rio, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent an outline of the story to the Brazilian embassy in Washington for approval and suggestions before shooting started, consulted with the Whitney Committee's committees in Hollywood kept an expert handy...
...future production until they were fed up, have had very little solid news of production now. Last week they had a satisfying mouthful of such solid news. The cautious Wall Street Journal added up the February output of the chief U. S. military aircraft engine makers (Wright, Pratt & Whitney, Allison). The totals: about 2,600 units, up 200 from January, up from a piddling 200-300 units since September 1939. Prospects were even brighter: 2,800 in March, 3,500-3,700 a month by July, 8,500 a month (or 100,000 engines a year) by April...
Bill Martin became first paid president of the Stock Exchange after the Richard Whitney scandal, when Wall Street's Old Guard had given way to its Young Turks. New Dealish, optimistic, they rallied behind Newcomer Martin in a campaign to re-establish the Exchange's good name. Bachelor Martin was only 31, sobersided, athletic, a good-natured mathematics whiz who ate in the Automat, wore no hat, and dabbled at writing plays in which he admitted he could never make the heroines sound natural. Blessed by President Roosevelt and Bill Douglas, no-smoking, no-drinking Bill Martin took...
...valedictory-elegy last week, Martin outlined, patiently and soberly, what was wrong with Wall Street, chiefly: 1) the war; 2) taxes (especially the capital-gains tax); 3) a bad name on Main Street ("We are still suffering under the stigma of the Whitney incident and all that went along with it"). He also had a few suggestions: streamline the Board of Governors, apply "merchandising . . . energy and hard work...