Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this and a lot more is hung on the sort of story Fred Allen used to contrive for the dramatic half of each week's broadcast: Fred Floogle (Mr. Allen), a Flea Circus Diaghilev, falls heir to his uncle's multimillion fortune, which attorneys have managed to reduce to five chairs and a pool table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits...
...with international good neighborliness. Behind the cosmic billing is a carefully selected, beautifully presented variety showing of old (2200 B.C.) and new (1943) paintings, sculpture, textiles, ceramics-37 timeless works of art from 37 nations. It took a solid year of planning, promoting, wangling* to round up this multimillion dollars' worth of fine art, mostly from U.S. collections. Some of the best items...
Bride by Mistake (RKO-Radio) had every right to be a perfectly awful mistake, but turns out to be pretty amusing. Its raw material is one of those five-&-dime stories about the sensitive multimillion-heiress (Laraine Day) who, eager to be sure that her lover (Alan Marshal) is not overvaluing the basely fiscal aspects of their relationship, swaps places with her secretary (Marsha Hunt) and all but bangs the pair's heads together. The surprising finished product is the result of the fact that the film is written by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, directed by Richard Wallace...
...Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer Sewing Machine, gave full plane contracts to a batch of war contract hungry New York State furniture makers...
Jesse Jones dipped into his big bag of tricks last week, came up with a crackerjack solution to the steel-scrap shortage: a multimillion-dollar RFC agency called War Materials, Inc., whose only reason for living is to buy at least 5,000,000 tons of iron and steel scrap as fast as possible...