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Mural Painter Rivera no longer works for $4 a day, but he holds to most of his old ideas. He believes that there is no such thing as inspiration, that a painter is a workman like any other, that he should work so many hours a day. contract for so many square feet of art a week. Coming to New York last month he explained all this, said that he had no idea what he was going to paint for his exhibition but knew that it would be as fine as anything he had done and added that...
...plus $25,000 cash to pay for liquidation, plus an unstated sum for some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Triplex agreed to remain out of the flat-and laminated-glass field for five years, retains the right to keep any damages that might be awarded to Triplex if its suits for patent infringement against Pittsburgh Plate Glass should...
Another recent Libbey-Owens-Ford buy was the glass division of General Motors, resulting in Libbey-Owens-Ford getting a seven-year G-M contract (TIME, June...
...first significant speech from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...hearsay tersely. His deep voice has always overwhelmingly convinced his big businessmen clients. A statement from his great & good friend Otto Hermann Kahn who owns from 70 to 80% of the Metropolitan stock was not forthcoming. But financial security seemed to lie in the announcement that a two-year contract had been signed with National Broadcasting Co. Twenty-five operas sent over the air will bring in a revenue of $250,000. The first: Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Christmas afternoon...