Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close of its eighth week last week GWTW, playing 156 theatres in 150 U. S. cities, had brought $5,567,000 to the box office. One of Producer Selznick's worries at the time of the premiere was how long it would take GWTW to make the $5,000,000 that it had to make before it began to earn any profits at all. Priced from 75? (matinee) to $2.20 (Manhattan's Astor), it had toppled house records almost everywhere. Produced for $3,850,000, it was expected to gross up to $20,000,000 in a year...
...vacation with pay each year so they can do it). Last week in New Deal Washington Republican Ohlson was getting ready to ask Congress for an appropriation of some $5,000,000 to build a 14-mile cutoff to the sea some 66 miles above Seward (see map) to make the Fairbanks-to-the-States run faster and cheaper. Because the U. S. is jittery about its Alaskan defenses (Russian Siberia is only 50 miles from the westernmost point of Alaska), and because the Army's two newly authorized air bases are on the A. R. R., Ohlson...
...York City's Banks went further on relief (interest-wise), put another $18,000,000 into low-yield government bonds, could see no other more profitable investments to make...
...operation already, in Seaford, Del., is Du Font's $8,000,000 nylon plant, which can make nylon enough for some 10% of women's full-fashioned hose knitted in the U. S. And soon abuilding will be extensions to increase this capacity. In May, Holeproof, Phoenix, Gotham, Van Raalte, other big hosiery mills will start national sales of nylon hose. If nylon sells nationally as well as it sells in Wilmington, Japan stands to lose something like $10,000,000 of her purchasing power in the U. S. Japan's sales...
...Soviet motion-picture industry passed at one stride from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company...