Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Toronto. Reason: the Better Business Bureau tipped off the U. S. Immigration Service that he might have violated the law by going to Buffalo on a visitor's pass, starting a business venture. O'Hearn appealed. Insisting that the National Depository was no business venture but a "nonprofit" philanthropy, he offered to take in the U. S. Government as a partner. Latest students of the O'Hearn plan: reformers from the Attorney General's office...
Under the present arrangement, all the major studios obtain their extras through Central Casting Corporation, a nonprofit, cooperative employment agency run by the Association of Motion Picture Producers. There almost 10,000 extras are registered, known by their age, sex, length of beard, type of wardrobe. When David Selznick needs a few thousand Confederate soldiers, his casting department sends an order to Central by teletype. It is given to one of the six casters who sit in a large noisy room listening to the names of the extras broadcast over a loudspeaker as they call in for work...