Word: control
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Jake Shubert descended on Manhattan to lease the Herald Square Theater. They had come down from Syracuse to fight the Klaw & Erlanger syndicate's dominance of the U.S. stage. Broadway, chafing at the syndicate's ironfisted control of 1,250 theaters, whooped the young rebels on. But when, after some 20 years of skirmishes and pitched battle, Jake & Lee* won their war, many producers began to wonder if they had not swapped one tyranny for another. "Instead of Klaw & Erlanger," gagged one, "we've now got tooth & claw...
Squeeze Play. In a 23-page complaint, McGrath ticked off the defendants' alleged sins against free trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged...
...Founder Harvey Cory. Young Alsdorf did so well selling the coffeemaker in coffee-drenched Brazil that he began to think of what he could do with proper salesmanship in the U.S. In 1942, when Founder Cory retired, Alsdorf and a group of friends scraped up enough money to buy control of the company. He added electric fans, stoves and air humidifiers to the Cory line, and in five years boosted sales from $2.5 million to a 1947 peak of $10.2 million-and profits from...
...press conference held last week before his Symphony Hall talk--Lihienthal the private citizen, speaking on the peacetime possibilities of the atom, felt compelled to dodge all questions relating to the AEC and the present status of atomic weapons, a matter until quite recently under the considerable control of Lilienthal the government official...
Smith's winning jump shot climaxed a frantic last two minutes in which three Elis tossed in quick baskets to put Yale out front, 55 to 54. Then, with a minute left, a cool Bob Bramhall brought the game under control with a foul shot followed two plays later by Smith's basket...