Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Congressmen should study the steel industry, said Fairless, to see how many new businesses it has created. Said he: "Today [compared to 33 years ago] fewer companies make the steel, but 12,000 more establishments are able to fabricate it. For every steelmaking company that has disappeared, 60 new metal-fabricating plants have been successfully established. And for every wage earner who had a job in the industry thirty-three years ago, three are employed today...
...them the films reverted to Levoy, who sold them again last week to the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. for a down payment of $225,000 and a 50-50 split between CBS and Levoy on future revenues. In so doing, Levoy proved that it is possible for Hollywood to make short movies for TV and rent them out for first, second and even third runs, in the same way that movies are now sold to theaters...
Last week, other Hollywoodians were hard at work on the same idea. Gene Autry signed up to make six half-hour westerns (with options to film an additional 46 shorts) for Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., Autry's radio sponsor. Wrigley agreed to pay from 30% to 50% of the production costs for first transmission rights. After the first run, Autry will be free to sell the films to other TV sponsors...
...Excuses are found to make loans, and in large amounts, that under no circumstances can be justified. [RFC] is being prostituted when making such loans as the Kaiser-Frazer [$44 million], Lustron [$37.5 million], Texmass [$10 million] and Waltham Watch Co. [$6 million...
...reformer (Dick Powell) is a cynical young office-seeker posing as an advocate of good government but willing to make a deal with a shady political boss (Ray Collins). The redhead (June Allyson) is the zookeeper's daughter, a naive hothead who is ardently humane to the wild animals that her father takes home whenever they need a rest cure. When Boss Collins gets her father unjustly fired, June appeals to Powell for help, takes a hand in his mayoralty campaign, and finally reforms him into a real reformer, and, presumably, an ideal husband...