Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed visitor to improvise on a royal theme. Bach forthwith obliged, extemporized a three-voice fugue. Frederick, delighted but still royal, thereupon set a more difficult task: development of his original theme into a six-part fugue. That was a stumper, even for the 62-year-old master; to make things worse, Frederick wished the assignment worked out in his presence...
Instructive were these meetings of the real owners of the corporation with their management. Most of the stockholders sidled in, a little embarrassed, more than a little flattered when jovial Chairman Bell shook them by the hand. He tried to make them feel at home, showed them lantern slides of directors and executives who were not present, as well as of General Mills' mills, process, products. The company comptroller explained to them a simplified balance sheet ("Liabilities-What...
Last week, SEC gave its answer: denied the application. Byllesby & Co. got 60 days to "make such adjustments as they deem necessary," i.e., get out of Standard Gas and give up its 25% slice of Standard investment issues or register as a holding company and perhaps lay its head on the block for the SEC's death sentence. Said Byllesby Vice President Joseph H. Briggs: "It appears the only course open is liquidation of the voting trust and sale of the stock." From SEC came ominous rumbles that other investment houses may also feel the knout...
...mild-mannered, chocolate-colored Producer Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux pictures take an average ten days to shoot, cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Casts are always allstar. "If I made one person the star," says foxy Producer Micheaux, "there would be no holding that person with a halter. I make them all stars." Though Oscar Micheaux has never made a picture in Hollywood, he has patiently built up a limited market for his Negro films. About 400 of the 16,000 U. S. movie houses are Negro theatres and Producer Micheaux peddles his wares among them...
...beat of a tom-tom. Publicity-wise, plane-cracking, bemonocled Negro Aviator Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian announced that he had joined Micheaux Picture Corp. as associate producer. Occasion was the world premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee, first of a series of pictures which Julian says he will make with Micheaux Pictures...