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...almost 100,000,000 weekly, 15% above last year. Around war plants the flickers play to standees at every show, theater walls fairly bulge with ogling patrons. Result: total box-office take of 16,500 U.S. cinemansions this year will hit a record $1.3 billion-20% above the peak year...
Four years ago Lights, Inc. was doing an average $150,000 annual business; today it does $1,500,000 in a peak month. If it handled all that business under one roof, Lights would have to hire between 10,000 and 20,000 employes, would require between $5 and $10 million worth of unobtainable machinery. Instead it employs only 200 people, owns only about $15,000 worth of machinery. The rest of its work is farmed out-mostly to tiny firms...
...Dome will spend $250,000 for new facilities, hopes to mine over 2,000,000 Ib. of the stuff annually-roughly 6% of world production and enough to supply practically all Canadian steel mills. To Dome this is a financial break: molybdenum sells for about 80? a Ib. At peak output the company should gross over $1,600,000 a year, one-fifth as much as all Dome's gold output once yielded...
...Second hour (in order to maintain peak production): Embraceable You, I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo...
...nation's first big bomber program. When Big Bill (now Lieut. General) Knudsen got to Detroit again last week, it was hammering away at a $15 billion backlog, had pushed its war production rate to $6 billion a year, 70% above its peacetime peak...