Word: share
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot that is just as drab as The Medium's: the story of a desperate woman in a police state who commits suicide when her last attempt to get a visa fails. It is longer and not so compact, but it packs more than The Medium's share of melodramatic punch. It opened on Broadway with a $100,000 advance sale; by last week all seats were sold out through June...
...plenty of work cut out for himself. Later this month he will sail for Italy to catch up on his share of hometown fame. He will make a movie of The Medium, later supervise productions of The Consul in London and Paris, as well as at La Scala. In his dedication to opera, he regrets that he has not had greater chance for orchestral composition. He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto...
...Manhattan a few days later, one stockholder said he was worried lest the good earnings and the $9 dividend rate become a target for government regulatory bodies. Why didn't A.T. & T. split its stock three for one, he asked, and thus change the dividend to $3 a share...
...surprise, the booming chemical industry was also up. Monsanto Chemical Co.'s net rose from $4,400,000 to $5,800,000, Union Carbide & Carbon's profit was up from $24.5 million to $27.4 million and Du Pont estimated that increased sales had boosted earnings per share to $1.15 v. 91? in last year's first quarter...
...channeling them through telephone wires. If a Phonevision subscriber wanted to see a movie, he would call the operator and she would plug in the missing frequencies to unscramble the broadcast. The fee for each movie (perhaps $1) would be put on the phone bill, and McDonald would share it with the movie company, TV station, etc. Phonevision may get its first commercial test next autumn, when Gene McDonald hopes to try it out for 90 days with 300 home televiewers...