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...force his clients to purchase a number of his products each time they desired one of them, he would most certainly fail, yet this is just the type of selling which is embodied in the current practice of block booking of movies. The producers force the exhibitors to contract for a whole block of pictures which they must accept regardless of their merits. The theater owners are unable to oppose this system for they must have a frequent change of program and delays in the arrival of film are fatal to them...
Yesterday morning unexpectedly it happened. Steadying his head to prevent its rolling heavily off onto the floor the Vagabond groaned from his couch, achieved the window, and peered querulously up into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly...
Neither would any contract be awarded to any company, "reorganized" or not, which had in its employ any of the 32 officials named by Mr. Farley as having attended Walter Folger Brown's "spoils" conference...
...President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract out of Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers, now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce, the chassis were to be lengthened and partly reshaped to fit Brewster bodies. Solid, expensive-looking, it is cheap enough...
...would have nothing to do with the Army's airmail operations, Hero Lindbergh was quite willing to tell Congress what he thought about the contract cancellations and pending legislation to restore the mail job to private companies. The morning he was to appear before the Senate Post Office Committee the ornate caucus room in the Senate Office Building was packed and running over with a crowd that left no one in doubt as to his popularity. Senatorial secretaries deserted their desks, streaked through the hallways, tried to elbow their way inside. Lights glared while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked...