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...means," 2) control of distribution, 3) a threat to enter the theatre field (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's plan for a circuit of its own in Italy). Italy permits Hollywood to take home $1,000,000 profit annually. Since this represents a return of one twentieth of one percent on a two billion dollar investment, Hollywood was concerned, but mildly...
About eighty percent of the failures in high voltage power systems are due to lightning strokes. A lightning stroke results from a gradual storage of electricity in the clouds and its subsequent sudden release. In order to simulate lightning strokes in the laboratory the department has constructed a surge generator capable of delivering electrical impulses of 180,000 volts for only a few millionths of a second...
Prior to yesterday's negotiations the unionizing drive had proceeded for several weeks. Organizers claim that almost the entire kitchen force is organized with Local 186 of the "Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association," and that approximately 75 percent of the waitresses and 100 percent of the bus boys have been incorporated into this union as an auxiliary...
...public. They too are suffering, and will continue to suffer for the rest of the week unless some deadly antidote is quickly compounded by the University to curb this crawling menace. For the public will pay the scalpers the original price of the ticket, plus the several hundred percent it cost the scalpers to obtain it, plus several hundred additional percent for the sole purpose of breeding these scalpers more profusely in the future...
...distributors and factory branches selling wholesale and dealers selling retail. There are 45,000 U. S. dealers and distributors, 60,000 repair shops. Ford and Chevrolet each have 10,000 dealers; Chrysler, Plymouth, De Soto and Dodge together have 8,000 distributors & dealers; Buick 3,000. Ninety-seven percent of U. S. towns cannot be worked by a dealer with profit, and 3,627 towns produce 85% of total sales. Cities, ranked by size, are the richest territoric:, A dealer usually sells two used cars for every new me, for more than half of U. S. motorists have never owned...